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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 penalties can laws sometimes include?
(a) The loss of marriage.
(b) The loss of speech.
(c) The loss of a child.
(d) The death penalty.

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

3. Despite man's liberty, what does Locke argue that man should not be allowed to do?
(a) Destroy himself, creatures, or other people.
(b) Buy his neighbor's property.
(c) Acquire his neighbor's slaves.
(d) Divorce his wife.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke argue about the inheritance of power and the right to rule?

2. What does the commonwealth give men?

3. What do laws exist for?

4. What joint power does Locke say is represented by the community?

5. What is the main reason men enter into communities?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are a parent's duties?

3. What freedom does the individual have in society?

4. What are the people's expectations of their government?

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

6. How does Locke define political power?

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

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

9. Describe the purpose for taxes.

10. When do these parental duties cease?

(see the answer keys)

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