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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. Where does the authority to make laws come from?
(a) The judge.
(b) The queen.
(c) The king.
(d) Members of the community.

5. How does Locke define "parental power"?
(a) Power to make slaves of children.
(b) Power to give away children.
(c) Power over the fate of children.
(d) Power to have children.

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

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

8. What right does Locke say any citizen has regarding crimes?
(a) The right to fight crime.
(b) The right to seek revenge.
(c) The right and duty to prevent crime.
(d) The right to create war.

9. Whose power in society does Locke say must be for the good of the society as a whole?
(a) The property owner's.
(b) The monarch's.
(c) The legislator's.
(d) The slave owner's.

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

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

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

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

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

15. What powers does Locke advocate being delegated and managed in society for a successful society?
(a) Executive and federative.
(b) Political and paternal.
(c) Executive and material.
(d) Legislative and judiciary.

Short Answer Questions

1. To understand political power, what is important to have?

2. What law determines when the guardianship ends?

3. What is federative power?

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

5. How do people pay for the benefit of the government's protection?

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