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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What law determines when the guardianship ends?
(a) The law of primogeniture.
(b) The law of property ownership.
(c) The municipal law of the country.
(d) The law of self-governance.

3. What is the one supreme power over the commonwealth?
(a) The federative.
(b) The political.
(c) The legislative.
(d) The executive.

4. What does Locke believe is the fundamental law of nature?
(a) Absolute monarchy.
(b) Establishing legislative power and then taking slaves.
(c) Anarchy.
(d) Man joining society and establishing legislative power.

5. How is despotic power defined in the Second Treatise?
(a) Political power to preserve property.
(b) Paternal power coming from nature.
(c) Arbitrary power that one man has over another man's life.
(d) Political power as a result of voluntary agreement.

6. What power gives the right to make laws?
(a) Political power.
(b) Paternal power.
(c) Conjugal power.
(d) Judicial power.

7. What does Locke believe that taxes need in order to be passed?
(a) A majority vote in the legislature.
(b) The consent of the people.
(c) The approval of the monarch.
(d) Money.

8. What does Locke say should not be expected of an injured party?
(a) Willingness to relinquish claims for reparation.
(b) Willingness to forgive offender.
(c) Willingness to speak on his own behalf.
(d) Objectivity in his own case.

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

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

11. What penalties can laws sometimes include?
(a) The loss of marriage.
(b) The loss of a child.
(c) The death penalty.
(d) The loss of speech.

12. What do most laws exist for?
(a) To relinquish slave owner rights.
(b) To distribute property.
(c) To regulate and preserve property.
(d) To regulate marriage.

13. What is federative power?
(a) The government has absolute power.
(b) The government acts as one power for the security of society.
(c) The government controls from Washington D.C.
(d) The government can overthrow state decisions.

14. Despite man's liberty, what does Locke argue that man should not be allowed to do?
(a) Buy his neighbor's property.
(b) Acquire his neighbor's slaves.
(c) Destroy himself, creatures, or other people.
(d) Divorce his wife.

15. What does Locke think the kind of punishment should be for a transgression less than murder?
(a) Loss of the right to vote.
(b) Beating.
(c) Loss of all property.
(d) Severe enough to prevent repetition.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a person violates the state of liberty, what does Locke say must ensue?

2. What does Locke believe is the kind of government when the whole community is involved?

3. What should judges be held accountable for?

4. When a person suffers damages, what right does he have according to Locke?

5. What does Locke argue about the inheritance of power and the right to rule?

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