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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 does Locke believe that taxes need in order to be passed?
(a) A majority vote in the legislature.
(b) Money.
(c) The consent of the people.
(d) The approval of the monarch.

2. What rules should people know according to Locke?
(a) The rules about property.
(b) The rules about gender equality.
(c) The rules governing their rights.
(d) The rules about inheritance.

3. For whom does the legislature make laws?
(a) The public good.
(b) The property owners.
(c) The children.
(d) The servants.

4. What was the right of succession practiced in the commonwealth?
(a) The wealthiest family dominates.
(b) The most powerful family dominates.
(c) The eldest son inherits the property and right to rule.
(d) The family with royal connections dominates.

5. What does political power directly affect?
(a) The equality between men and women.
(b) The distribution of wealth.
(c) The literacy of a nation.
(d) The disposal of property.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do people pay for the benefit of the government's protection?

2. Locke determines that children fail to experience __________ in their early years.

3. What duty does Locke believe ends when a child is of reasonable age?

4. What does Locke define political power as?

5. What does Locke believe that citizens can do if a man is unfit to be the ruler?

Short Essay Questions

1. When and how does a child follow the law of reason?

2. Describe the power of the community legislature.

3. What is the most fundamental law of nature mentioned in the Second Treatise that the legislature seeks to protect?

4. Describe what Locke believes his First Treatise proves about Adam and his sons' rights.

5. When does man have the right to stop another person's rights?

6. What are a parent's duties?

7. Describe the purpose for taxes.

8. Describe the state of natural freedom mentioned by Locke.

9. What is man's relationship to the freedom of other people?

10. What two powers of government should always be kept separately?

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