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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-5, pp. 115-139.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Genesis, when were men and other living creatures created?
(a) When Noak's Ark came ashore.
(b) On the same day.
(c) On different days.
(d) After the apple was eaten.

2. What two things does Locke feel are conflated?
(a) Right to buy and the right to sell.
(b) Birthright and dominion.
(c) Right to govern and the need to have control.
(d) Property and slave ownership.

3. What does Locke say he cannot find proof for in the First Treatise?
(a) The royalty's claim to rule by divine right through the sovereignty of Adam.
(b) That ordinary men can own property.
(c) Adam's right to be supreme.
(d) That slavery is legal.

4. To whom does Locke believe the duty of honor and obedience is due?
(a) The natural father.
(b) The king.
(c) The prince.
(d) The magistrate.

5. Who is the only party who has the right to seek reparations?
(a) The wife.
(b) The judge.
(c) The injured individual.
(d) The child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the only two ways that kings can come to power, according to Filmer?

2. What kinds of goods does the first-born child inherit?

3. What claim of Filmer's does Locke dispute?

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

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

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