Quiz: Second Treatise of Government

10 questions drawn at random. Score 80% for a silver medal.

1. What does Locke say happened to the middle part of his answer to Filmer? It was suppressed by order of King William It was published separately as the Essay Concerning Human Understanding It was burned by the public hangman It was lost, and he does not intend to rewrite it
2. Whose appeal to heaven does Locke cite as the example of the state of war? Cain’s, after killing his brother Abel Moses’s, against Pharaoh David’s, against Saul in the wilderness Jephtha’s, against the Ammonites
3. In § 28, which of these does Locke list as becoming his property by labour without anyone’s consent? The turfs his servant has cut The water in the river The common of his parish A neighbour’s ploughed field
4. Which of these is not one of the three things Locke says the state of nature lacks? A standing army against foreign invasion An established, known law Power to back and support the sentence and give it due execution A known and impartial judge
5. Why does Locke prefer “parental power” to “paternal power”? Because the mother has an equal title to it Because Filmer used the word “parental” Because it passes from parents to the king Because it is shared by all the elders of a tribe
6. What limits how much a person may appropriate by labour in the beginning? As much as he and his family can carry home As much as he can use before it spoils As much as the whole community agrees to give him As much as he can defend by force of arms
7. Which book does Locke recommend for a picture of absolute monarchy “grown to perfection”? The late relation of Ceylon Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity Filmer’s Patriarcha Garcilaso’s history of Peru
8. Which two cities does Locke cite as begun by free and independent men uniting by consent? Carthage and Tyre Athens and Sparta Florence and Genoa Rome and Venice
9. Why may a man kill a thief who robs him on the road, but not one who has already stolen all he owns? Because the common law of England allows it, though the law of nature does not Because a horse or coat is worth more than other goods In the robbery there is no time to appeal to the law, which can remedy the past theft Because the second thief has already repented
10. What image does Locke use for people who see a long train of actions all tending towards arbitrary power? Travellers lost on a moor at nightfall in winter Sheep who see the shepherd sharpening his knife Passengers steered towards Algiers Tenants whose landlord raises the rent every year without cause

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