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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2 Chapter 20 & 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Hobbes say a commonwealth is taken by acquisition?
(a) People ask to join a bigger commonwealth.
(b) In fear of death, men surrender to the new commonwealth
(c) Money is exchanged for the new territory.
(d) Adjacent territory is annexed by vote.

3. What is needed to be able to judge what is just or unjust?
(a) contracts
(b) judges
(c) statistics
(d) lawyers

4. Which two forms of government need not worry about succession?
(a) neither a democracy nor an aristocracy
(b) neither a republic nor a dictatorship
(c) neither a communist nor an empire
(d) neither a monarchy nor an anarchy

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Hobbes call a third law of nature?

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

4. What does Hobbes call reasoning with oneself?

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

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