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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Locke write is necessary to stop war?
(a) Plenty of food for everyone.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Security.
(d) A peaceful resolution with the aggressor.

2. What should no human sanction oppose according to Locke?
(a) The right to assembly peacefully.
(b) The right to fight.
(c) The preservation of mankind.
(d) The right to rule.

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

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

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

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

7. What happens in a state of liberty?
(a) Nature takes over.
(b) Power and jurisdiction are reciprocal.
(c) The loudest dominates.
(d) Anarchy begins.

8. What should have defined laws, according to Locke?
(a) Property ownership.
(b) Inheritance.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Society.

9. What relationship is necessary to nurture the young?
(a) Conjugal relationship between husband and wife.
(b) Child's obedience to the father.
(c) Political power of the father.
(d) Political alliance between king and queen.

10. Who is the only party who has the right to seek reparations?
(a) The child.
(b) The judge.
(c) The wife.
(d) The injured individual.

11. What does political power directly affect?
(a) The distribution of wealth.
(b) The equality between men and women.
(c) The literacy of a nation.
(d) The disposal of property.

12. When does Locke believe that people should change the legislature?
(a) When the legislature does something unpopular.
(b) When the legislature is not organized.
(c) When the legislature is tyrannical.
(d) When the legislature is difficult.

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

14. When a person violates the state of liberty, what does Locke say must ensue?
(a) Nothing.
(b) War.
(c) The offender must be punished.
(d) Negotiations.

15. What is the main reason men enter into communities?
(a) To learn laws.
(b) To become rulers.
(c) To buy property.
(d) To preserve property.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the commonwealth give men?

2. What does Locke define political power as?

3. What power gives the right to make laws?

4. What law determines when the guardianship ends?

5. What is the first fundamental natural law?

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