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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Locke define political power as?
(a) The power of a master over a slave.
(b) The power of a husband over a wife.
(c) The power of a father over a child.
(d) The power that a magistrate has over a subject.

2. What does Locke say is protected by law and cannot be taken away by a ruler?
(a) Freedom to marry.
(b) Freedom to fight.
(c) Property.
(d) Freedom to travel.

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

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

5. What does Locke argue should be expected of the ruler?
(a) To be kind and understanding.
(b) To follow the laws and not make arbitrary decisions.
(c) To rule only for four years.
(d) To be compassionate.

6. What does Locke name the law to govern Adam and his posterity?
(a) The law of equality.
(b) The law of reason.
(c) The law of property ownership.
(d) The law of primogeniture.

7. What joint power does Locke say is represented by the community?
(a) The power to create and break rules.
(b) The power to live wherever you want and to own property.
(c) The power to be free and to self-govern.
(d) The power of all the members in that society.

8. What does Locke believe contradicts civil society?
(a) Absolute monarchy.
(b) Natural freedom.
(c) Freedom of speech.
(d) Freedom to vote.

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

10. What was the rule of inheritance among families in a commonwealth?
(a) The oldest child inherits.
(b) The eldest son inherits.
(c) The father decides who inherits.
(d) The royal family decides which families inherit what properties.

11. Locke determines that children fail to experience __________ in their early years.
(a) Equality.
(b) Control.
(c) Reason.
(d) Power.

12. How does Locke believe that natural freedom and the rule of parents fit together?
(a) Natural freedom is stolen from children by their parents.
(b) Children have to be old enough to understand the law of reason and are free until this age.
(c) Natural freedom opposes all parental rule.
(d) Natural freedom is given to children by parents.

13. What happens when people choose the form of government they want?
(a) They give up their rights to anarchy.
(b) The absolute monarch takes over.
(c) Their natural freedom is curtailed.
(d) They authorize certain people to make laws for them.

14. How does Locke define legislative power?
(a) The power to execute law.
(b) The power to decide who owns what in society.
(c) How a community uses resources for the preservation and betterment of society.
(d) The power to transfer resource ownership.

15. What duty does Locke believe ends when a child is of reasonable age?
(a) The parent's duty to feed the child.
(b) The parent's duty as a guardian.
(c) Society's duty to educate the child.
(d) Society's duty to accept the child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does political power directly affect?

2. What does Locke believe that citizens can do if a man is unfit to be the ruler?

3. What happens in a state of liberty?

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

5. To whom does Locke determine that parental power belongs?

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