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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Locke say is protected by law and cannot be taken away by a ruler?
(a) Freedom to travel.
(b) Freedom to marry.
(c) Freedom to fight.
(d) Property.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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.

13. What does Locke argue the power should not be used for?
(a) To destroy or enslave the members of society.
(b) To wage war.
(c) To own property.
(d) To destroy a neighbor's property.

14. What two government powers does Locke argue should remain separate?
(a) Judicial power and the power of property ownership.
(b) The power to bear arms and the power to follow one's own faith.
(c) Legislative power and executive power.
(d) The power of self-governance and the power to assemble peacefully.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does political power directly affect?

2. What relationship is necessary to nurture the young?

3. What rules should people know according to Locke?

4. What penalties can laws sometimes include?

5. What is the one supreme power over the commonwealth?

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