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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why it is important to figure out the right of inheritance?
(a) It explains the need for individual liberty.
(b) It repudiates primogeniture.
(c) It determines the transfer of power.
(d) It creates order.

2. What is the only thing that Locke can find in the scriptures pertaining to power and God?
(a) Divine right of kings.
(b) The commandment "love thy neighbor."
(c) The commandment "honor thy father."
(d) Right to slavery and ownership of property.

3. According to Locke, to whom did God give the power of dominion?
(a) Parents.
(b) Adam and Eve.
(c) Royalty.
(d) Slave owners.

4. What does the rule of having only one king in the world depend upon?
(a) Obedient sons.
(b) Lots of property.
(c) A big kingdom.
(d) The acceptance of paternal authority.

5. To support what theory does Locke employ numerous citations?
(a) The divine right to rule inherited by Adam.
(b) The right to own slaves.
(c) The need for subservience in children.
(d) The equality of power between both parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What rights does Locke believe that Adam's heir possesses in relation to these creatures?

2. What issues arise with Noah?

3. What does Locke say he cannot find proof for in the First Treatise?

4. What rights does Filmer believe should be given to the descendants of the heir?

5. What distinction does Locke make regarding gender and power?

Short Essay Questions

1. What confusion arises as a direct result of equating birthright with dominion?

2. What does Locke say about Adam and Eve regarding power?

3. Describe who Filmer believes the heir to power should be.

4. According to Locke, what does the Patriarcha treatise say about freedom?

5. What kind of power is the right of supremacy?

6. What point does Locke bring up regarding birthright, dominion, and possessions?

7. What practice does Locke believe Filmer bases his theory of absolute monarchy?

8. What does Filmer say about the relationship of man to his parents?

9. What does Filmer infer about the Fifth Commandment?

10. Describe fatherly authority.

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