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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How is despotic power defined in the Second Treatise?
(a) Arbitrary power that one man has over another man's life.
(b) Paternal power coming from nature.
(c) Political power to preserve property.
(d) Political power as a result of voluntary agreement.

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

12. How do people pay for the benefit of the government's protection?
(a) Taxation.
(b) By giving up some rights.
(c) By refusing to fight.
(d) Voting.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What power does Locke argue that a man can only be subject to by choice?

3. What does Locke think the kind of punishment should be for a transgression less than murder?

4. What was the right of succession practiced in the commonwealth?

5. By avoiding the abuse of power, what happens in society?

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