Two Treatises of Government Test | Final Test - Easy

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Two Treatises of Government Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who cannot give the injured party satisfaction?
(a) Locke.
(b) The injured party.
(c) The offender.
(d) The magistrate.

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

3. What does Locke believe is the kind of government when the whole community is involved?
(a) A monarchy.
(b) A perfect democracy.
(c) Anarchy.
(d) An oligarchy.

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

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

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

7. To whom does Locke determine that parental power belongs?
(a) Belongs to both parents.
(b) It changes as the child grows.
(c) Belongs only to the mother.
(d) Belongs only to the father.

8. What two powers are vastly different according to Locke?
(a) Political power and maternal power.
(b) Political power and paternal power.
(c) Paternal power and landowner power.
(d) Maternal power and slave owner power.

9. What is the first fundamental natural law?
(a) To be free.
(b) Preserve society and people in it.
(c) To have children.
(d) To do as you please.

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

11. What does Locke argue about the inheritance of power and the right to rule?
(a) That it is not predetermined by birthright.
(b) That it comes only to Noah's descendants.
(c) That it belongs to the firstborn child.
(d) That it comes only to Adam's descendants.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose power in society does Locke say must be for the good of the society as a whole?

3. According to Locke, what right do men have regarding murderers?

4. For whom does the legislature make laws?

5. When does Locke believe that people should change the legislature?

(see the answer keys)

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