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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. To be sure one has found reason, what is necessary?
(a) All affirmations and negations must be considered.
(b) It must stand the test of time.
(c) The negations must be discarded.
(d) The soverign must be consulted.

2. How does Hobbes suggest that people reason?
(a) By counting on fingers and toes
(b) By adding or subtracting two thoughts
(c) By mathematical equations
(d) By first getting burned

3. What does Hobbes accept when peace is impossible?
(a) surrender
(b) war
(c) diplomacy
(d) hiding

4. Why do people want to make a covenant and select sovereigns?
(a) to prevent having to relinquish freedoms
(b) to allow for orderly disagreement
(c) to rid themselves of political uneasiness
(d) to be like the other commonweaths around them

5. What is Hobbes' only conditionality regarding all people being created equal?
(a) Some may be better looking than others.
(b) Some may be taller than others.
(c) Some may be born into money.
(d) Some may be stronger or smarter than others.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What option does Hobbes say everyone has?

3. What is the term he uses for reasoning with another person?

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

5. What is the second right of the sovereign?

(see the answer key)

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