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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By avoiding the abuse of power, what happens in society?
(a) Property was divided.
(b) People willingly submitted to the rule of another.
(c) People were free to marry.
(d) A government was overthrown.

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

3. Which two parties did not initially seek to oppress each other in the commonwealth?
(a) Slaves and slave owners.
(b) People and the magistrate.
(c) Commonwealth families and children.
(d) People and the property owners.

4. Why is political power important?
(a) For the making of laws to govern society.
(b) For the right to own slaves.
(c) For the right to get married.
(d) For the right to share your opinion.

5. What does Locke believe that the First Treatise proves?
(a) That Adam's authority came from being a father.
(b) That Adam did not have authority over his children.
(c) That Adam's authority stemmed from God.
(d) That Adam had authority over his children.

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

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

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

9. What does Locke argue that the people hold as supreme and unalterable?
(a) The legislature.
(b) Absolute monarchy.
(c) The government.
(d) Natural law.

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

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

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

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

14. 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) Wage war.
(d) Remove the ruler.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does man give up by joining a community?

2. What does Locke name the law to govern Adam and his posterity?

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

4. Where does the authority to make laws come from?

5. What is the first fundamental natural law?

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