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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2 Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Hobbes' idea about self-protection in natural law?
(a) With people it is not necessary.
(b) In nature, every person has the right to protect his own life.
(c) Humans have a right to preemptive strikes.
(d) It is not natural to protect oneself, it should be done by the commonwealth.

3. How does Hobbes classify a person who speaks for himself?
(a) As a politician
(b) As an author
(c) As a boaster
(d) As a diplomat

4. What option does Hobbes say everyone has?
(a) to work or play
(b) to live in misery or happiness
(c) to live or die
(d) to talk or be quiet

5. What does Hobbes define as moral virtues?
(a) justice, gratitude, modesty, equity, and mercy
(b) conforming, working, learning, and manufacturing
(c) sharing, educating, explaining, and contributing
(d) fearing, obeying, ordering, and supplanting

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hobbes define injustice of an action?

2. How can it be said that each man in a group has a voice?

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

4. What two factors does Hobbes believe control mental discourse?

5. What kinds of questions does Hobbes say people have little interest in?

(see the answer key)

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