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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 property owner's.
(c) The legislator's.
(d) The monarch's.

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

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

4. How does Locke believe that natural freedom and the rule of parents fit together?
(a) Natural freedom is stolen from children by their parents.
(b) Natural freedom is given to children by parents.
(c) Children have to be old enough to understand the law of reason and are free until this age.
(d) Natural freedom opposes all parental rule.

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

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

7. What duty does Locke believe ends when a child is of reasonable age?
(a) The parent's duty to feed the child.
(b) Society's duty to educate the child.
(c) The parent's duty as a guardian.
(d) Society's duty to accept the child.

8. Which two parties did not initially seek to oppress each other in the commonwealth?
(a) People and the magistrate.
(b) People and the property owners.
(c) Commonwealth families and children.
(d) Slaves and slave owners.

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

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

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

12. What law determines when the guardianship ends?
(a) The law of primogeniture.
(b) The municipal law of the country.
(c) The law of property ownership.
(d) The law of self-governance.

13. What does Locke believe is the fundamental law of nature?
(a) Establishing legislative power and then taking slaves.
(b) Man joining society and establishing legislative power.
(c) Anarchy.
(d) Absolute monarchy.

14. What can a subject do regardless of the type of ruler according to Locke?
(a) Take matters into his own hands.
(b) Appeal to the law.
(c) Be an anarchist.
(d) Make a stake for his own property.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the only party who has the right to seek reparations?

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

3. How does Locke define "parental power"?

4. What should have defined laws, according to Locke?

5. What do most laws exist for?

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