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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can a subject do regardless of the type of ruler according to Locke?
(a) Take matters into his own hands.
(b) Make a stake for his own property.
(c) Appeal to the law.
(d) Be an anarchist.

2. What powers does Locke advocate being delegated and managed in society for a successful society?
(a) Political and paternal.
(b) Executive and material.
(c) Executive and federative.
(d) Legislative and judiciary.

3. Whose power in society does Locke say must be for the good of the society as a whole?
(a) The property owner's.
(b) The legislator's.
(c) The slave owner's.
(d) The monarch's.

4. What does Locke believe that citizens can do if a man is unfit to be the ruler?
(a) Wage war.
(b) Destroy the kingdom.
(c) Replace the ruler.
(d) Remove the ruler.

5. What is the one supreme power over the commonwealth?
(a) The political.
(b) The federative.
(c) The executive.
(d) The legislative.

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

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

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

9. What does Locke believe is the kind of government when the whole community is involved?
(a) A monarchy.
(b) An oligarchy.
(c) Anarchy.
(d) A perfect democracy.

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

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

12. How does Locke say man establishes his right of property?
(a) Through labor he expends.
(b) Through slavery.
(c) Through the power of the commonwealth.
(d) Through warfare.

13. Why is political power important?
(a) For the right to get married.
(b) For the right to own slaves.
(c) For the making of laws to govern society.
(d) For the right to share your opinion.

14. What does Locke define political power as?
(a) The power of a husband over a wife.
(b) The power that a magistrate has over a subject.
(c) The power of a father over a child.
(d) The power of a master over a slave.

15. What does political power involve?
(a) The right to speak.
(b) The making of laws.
(c) The transfer of property.
(d) The right to dominate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Locke write is necessary to stop war?

2. What two government powers does Locke argue should remain separate?

3. What does Locke say does not end when the right to guardianship ends?

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

5. What law determines when the guardianship ends?

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