Purpose & Forms of Government Quiz

True or False. Most states have a single, organized government whose power is recognized by the people inside the state.

• True

• False

What is NOT something a state must have?

• People

• Territory

• Politics

• Government

____ natural rights and that governments have a responsibility to protect those rights. 

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Washington

• Jefferson

What time is this assignment due by?

• 7 pm

• 3 pm

• 4 pm

• 5 pm

Which purpose of government is launching satellites and creating nuclear weapones?

• form more perfect union

• insure domestic tranquility

• providing for the common defense

• promote the general welfare

True or False. States are often called nations or continents.

• True

• False

TRUE OR FALSE: A nation refers to a homogenous group of people who rule themselves.

• True

• False

True or False. John Locke wrote the book Leviathan (1651), about the need for what he called a social contract between governments and the governed.

• True

• False

Which purpose of government is creating a police force?

• form more perfect union

• insure domestic tranquility

• establish justice

• promote the general welfare

Locke’s writings influenced Thomas Jefferson’s writing of the ______

• Declaration of Independence

• Declaration of the Rights of Man

• Leviathan

• Two Treatises of Government