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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3 Chapters 39, 40, & 41.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why, according to Hobbes, is it necessary to believe God is Infinite?
(a) The finite has an end and God does not.
(b) God will accept nothing less.
(c) God is a concept and not a person.
(d) It is the only way to understand who God is.

2. Why does Hobbes insist that the commonwealth is born out of human politics?
(a) It is established in obedience, laws, peace, charity and civil society
(b) It is established on scientific principles only.
(c) It is established on the basis of the good of the soverign.
(d) It is established on a basis of faith in God.

3. What kinds of questions does Hobbes say people have little interest in?
(a) things that have absolute answers like math and science
(b) things that have to do with the supernatural
(c) things that involve faith
(d) things that have no known answers

4. In political systems, what are the two avenues of laws?
(a) One is by revolution, and the other is by civil disobedience.
(b) One is by traditions, and the second is by innovation.
(c) One is their own written laws, the other is laws of the sovereign.
(d) One is by a constitution and the other is by police power.

5. Who has responsibility for seeing that others are educated in the law?
(a) parents and the universities
(b) the assembly or the multitude
(c) clergimen and philosophers
(d) nurses and lawyers

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hobbes say a person is doing when he stops defending himself?

2. Who are the subjects in the Kingdom of God?

3. What does Hobbes say is the purpose of punishment?

4. Who does Hobbes insist is of the greatest value to a commonwealth?

5. What are the people expected to do?

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