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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens in a state of liberty?
(a) The loudest dominates.
(b) Power and jurisdiction are reciprocal.
(c) Anarchy begins.
(d) Nature takes over.

3. What does man give up by joining a community?
(a) Some of his natural liberty.
(b) Spiritual power.
(c) Physical power.
(d) Mental power.

4. To understand political power, what is important to have?
(a) A state of equality.
(b) A knowledge of legal literature.
(c) A state of perfect freedom for men.
(d) A desire to rule.

5. What does Locke think the kind of punishment should be for a transgression less than murder?
(a) Loss of all property.
(b) Beating.
(c) Severe enough to prevent repetition.
(d) Loss of the right to vote.

6. What duty does Locke believe ends when a child is of reasonable age?
(a) The parent's duty as a guardian.
(b) The parent's duty to feed the child.
(c) Society's duty to educate the child.
(d) Society's duty to accept the child.

7. Who settles controversies in laws?
(a) Judges.
(b) The slave owner.
(c) The public.
(d) The property owner.

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

9. When a person violates the state of liberty, what does Locke say must ensue?
(a) The offender must be punished.
(b) War.
(c) Negotiations.
(d) Nothing.

10. Which two parties did not initially seek to oppress each other in the commonwealth?
(a) Commonwealth families and children.
(b) People and the magistrate.
(c) Slaves and slave owners.
(d) People and the property owners.

11. When does Locke believe that people should change the legislature?
(a) When the legislature is not organized.
(b) When the legislature is difficult.
(c) When the legislature is tyrannical.
(d) When the legislature does something unpopular.

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

13. How is despotic power defined in the Second Treatise?
(a) Political power to preserve property.
(b) Political power as a result of voluntary agreement.
(c) Paternal power coming from nature.
(d) Arbitrary power that one man has over another man's life.

14. What does Locke believe is the fundamental law of nature?
(a) Man joining society and establishing legislative power.
(b) Absolute monarchy.
(c) Anarchy.
(d) Establishing legislative power and then taking slaves.

15. What two powers are vastly different according to Locke?
(a) Maternal power and slave owner power.
(b) Political power and paternal power.
(c) Political power and maternal power.
(d) Paternal power and landowner power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do laws exist for?

2. What happens when people choose the form of government they want?

3. What does political power involve?

4. How does Locke believe that natural freedom and the rule of parents fit together?

5. What should have defined laws, according to Locke?

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