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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hobbes identify as three basic human fears?
(a) fear of the dark, the weather, and wild animals
(b) fear of work, being social, and talking too much
(c) fear of being robbed, raped, or ousted from their homes
(d) fear of snakes, spideers, and scorpions

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

3. What does Hobbes say people are either born with or develop?
(a) personalities and names
(b) hair and fingernails
(c) appetites and aversions
(d) fingers and toes

4. How does Hobbes describe his compound imagination?
(a) Like seeing an appl and an orange and imagining a melon
(b) Like seeing a man and a horse and imagining a centaur
(c) Like seeing a carriage and a house and imagining a train
(d) Like seeing a dog and a cat and imagining a kangaroo

5. 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 no known answers
(c) things that involve faith
(d) things that have to do with the supernatural

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hobbes classify intellectual virtue?

2. What does Hobbes say is needed to protect people from danger?

3. Why can passion for power be dangerous?

4. What does Hobbes say leads to competition among people?

5. Where does Hobbes insist people go when they disagree?

(see the answer key)

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