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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 can the commonwealth do to check bad behavior of its citizens?
(a) Provide everything for the subjects.
(b) Put everyone into servitude.
(c) Put power limits on subjects of the nation.
(d) Increase the quality of education.

2. What needs to be given to the shy people?
(a) laws to prevent their abuse
(b) large amounts of financial aid
(c) encouragement to get out and attain what the others have
(d) an economic bailout package

3. Why does Hobbes say that people are always seeking more power, wealth, or popularity?
(a) People can think.
(b) People believe in the supernatural.
(c) People are like animals.
(d) People are restless.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hobbes say ends a discourse?

2. What is Hobbes' only conditionality regarding all people being created equal?

3. What does Hobbes accept when peace is impossible?

4. Why does Hobbes say that having friends, followers, and servants is the greatest power?

5. What does Hobbes think of using metaphors?

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