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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can a subject do regardless of the type of ruler according to Locke?
(a) Appeal to the law.
(b) Be an anarchist.
(c) Take matters into his own hands.
(d) Make a stake for his own property.

2. What does Locke say does not end when the right to guardianship ends?
(a) Parent's duty to accept child.
(b) Child's duty to respect parents.
(c) Parent's duty to share property with child.
(d) Child's duty to learn.

3. Where does the authority to make laws come from?
(a) Members of the community.
(b) The king.
(c) The queen.
(d) The judge.

4. Who settles controversies in laws?
(a) The public.
(b) The slave owner.
(c) Judges.
(d) The property owner.

5. When a father dies, onto whom does parental duty fall?
(a) The mother.
(b) The judge.
(c) The stepfather.
(d) The child.

6. What should judges be held accountable for?
(a) Feelings of injured party.
(b) Putting away offenders.
(c) Decisions.
(d) Finding methods of punishment.

7. For whom does the legislature make laws?
(a) The servants.
(b) The public good.
(c) The property owners.
(d) The children.

8. What does the commonwealth give men?
(a) Arbitrary power.
(b) Absolute power.
(c) Free will to do as they please.
(d) Rules to live by.

9. When a person suffers damages, what right does he have according to Locke?
(a) The right to destroy.
(b) The right to complain.
(c) The right to seek reparations.
(d) The right to fight.

10. What does man give up by joining a community?
(a) Mental power.
(b) Some of his natural liberty.
(c) Spiritual power.
(d) Physical power.

11. How do people pay for the benefit of the government's protection?
(a) By refusing to fight.
(b) Taxation.
(c) By giving up some rights.
(d) Voting.

12. What does Locke believe that citizens can do if a man is unfit to be the ruler?
(a) Destroy the kingdom.
(b) Replace the ruler.
(c) Remove the ruler.
(d) Wage war.

13. What do laws exist for?
(a) The good of society.
(b) To stop war.
(c) To prevent fighting.
(d) To preserve land.

14. How does Locke say man establishes his right of property?
(a) Through slavery.
(b) Through labor he expends.
(c) Through the power of the commonwealth.
(d) Through warfare.

15. What risk does Locke determine war creates for man?
(a) Loss of life.
(b) Loss of peace.
(c) Loss of time for himself.
(d) Loss of security.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke write is necessary to stop war?

2. What rules should people know according to Locke?

3. What do most laws exist for?

4. What should have defined laws, according to Locke?

5. What is the main reason men enter into communities?

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