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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. What claim of Filmer's does Locke dispute?
(a) That children have the right to leave their homes.
(b) That mothers have equal shares in begetting children.
(c) That God gave men dominion over women.
(d) That cannibalism is acceptable.

2. What does Locke disagree with Filmer about concerning the rights of the first man in the world?
(a) The right to governance.
(b) The right to acquire property.
(c) The right to fight.
(d) The right to procreate.

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

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

5. Who questions the details of rulership?
(a) King James.
(b) Adam.
(c) Filmer.
(d) Locke.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens if the world has more than one king?

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

3. What issues arise with Noah?

4. What is the basis of sovereignty of monarchs in the First Treatise?

5. What does Filmer call the relationship between a man and his parents?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Filmer, what are the only two ways that a king can come to power?

2. Describe Locke's argument about multiple kings and what their existence shows.

3. Describe some effects on inheritance mentioned in the bible and cited by Locke.

4. What does Locke use to refute the theory of absolute monarchy?

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

6. What does Locke say about the rights of the mother?

7. How does absolutism prevent freedom?

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

9. What does Locke say the passage of Genesis proves about man's relationship to others?

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

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