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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 Chapters 11 & 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Hobbes say that having friends, followers, and servants is the greatest power?
(a) Being liked and respected makes people good managers and motivators.
(b) Having these, one does not need to go to war.
(c) Having these, one does not need anything else.
(d) With friends, followers, and servants one does not need to work.

2. What does Hobbes say leads to competition among people?
(a) religion
(b) different abilities
(c) different interests
(d) restless desire

3. What type of book is LEVIATHAN?
(a) A book about large fish
(b) A book about comparative religion
(c) A book of political philosophy
(d) A science fiction book

4. What does Hobbes say ends a discourse?
(a) A person learns the answer to a question or he/she gives up.
(b) A person grows tired of talking and shuts up.
(c) A person speaks a different language.
(d) A person runs out of anything to say.

5. What does Hobbes call reasoning with oneself?
(a) Marking
(b) Impossible
(c) Foolish
(d) Insanity

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hobbes see the commonwealth?

2. What does Hobbes say people are either born with or develop?

3. Why can passion for power be dangerous?

4. To what does Hobbes say people attribute that which is unknown?

5. How does Hobbes describe his compound imagination?

(see the answer key)

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