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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does man give up by joining a community?
(a) Mental power.
(b) Physical power.
(c) Some of his natural liberty.
(d) Spiritual power.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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 can overthrow state decisions.
(d) The government has absolute power.

11. 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.

12. When a father dies, onto whom does parental duty fall?
(a) The child.
(b) The mother.
(c) The stepfather.
(d) The judge.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Locke believe that natural freedom and the rule of parents fit together?

2. What does Locke say does not end when the right to guardianship ends?

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

4. How does Locke say man establishes his right of property?

5. What does Locke believe that the First Treatise proves?

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