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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When a father dies, onto whom does parental duty fall?
(a) The mother.
(b) The child.
(c) The stepfather.
(d) The judge.
2. What should have defined laws, according to Locke?
(a) Society.
(b) Inheritance.
(c) Property ownership.
(d) Marriage.
3. How does Locke believe that natural freedom and the rule of parents fit together?
(a) Natural freedom is given to children by parents.
(b) Children have to be old enough to understand the law of reason and are free until this age.
(c) Natural freedom is stolen from children by their parents.
(d) Natural freedom opposes all parental rule.
4. How do people pay for the benefit of the government's protection?
(a) By giving up some rights.
(b) Taxation.
(c) By refusing to fight.
(d) Voting.
5. What does Locke believe contradicts civil society?
(a) Freedom of speech.
(b) Natural freedom.
(c) Absolute monarchy.
(d) Freedom to vote.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. What joint power does Locke say is represented by the community?
(a) The power of all the members in that society.
(b) The power to create and break rules.
(c) The power to live wherever you want and to own property.
(d) The power to be free and to self-govern.
9. What does Locke say is protected by law and cannot be taken away by a ruler?
(a) Freedom to travel.
(b) Property.
(c) Freedom to fight.
(d) Freedom to marry.
10. Who is the only party who has the right to seek reparations?
(a) The injured individual.
(b) The child.
(c) The judge.
(d) The wife.
11. What does Locke say should not be expected of an injured party?
(a) Willingness to relinquish claims for reparation.
(b) Willingness to forgive offender.
(c) Objectivity in his own case.
(d) Willingness to speak on his own behalf.
12. What does Locke argue about the inheritance of power and the right to rule?
(a) That it belongs to the firstborn child.
(b) That it comes only to Adam's descendants.
(c) That it comes only to Noah's descendants.
(d) That it is not predetermined by birthright.
13. What does Locke define political power as?
(a) The power of a father over a child.
(b) The power that a magistrate has over a subject.
(c) The power of a master over a slave.
(d) The power of a husband over a wife.
14. What does man give up by joining a community?
(a) Some of his natural liberty.
(b) Spiritual power.
(c) Mental power.
(d) Physical power.
15. What powers does Locke advocate being delegated and managed in society for a successful society?
(a) Executive and federative.
(b) Executive and material.
(c) Political and paternal.
(d) Legislative and judiciary.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Locke believe that citizens can do if a man is unfit to be the ruler?
2. Who cannot give the injured party satisfaction?
3. What happens when people choose the form of government they want?
4. What should no human sanction oppose according to Locke?
5. What relationship is necessary to nurture the young?
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