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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2 Chapter 31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Hobbes say men will give up some of their freedoms?
(a) to seek protection for their lives and those of their family
(b) when it does not cost them anything
(c) when they go to prison
(d) when they are given other freedoms in return

2. To what does Hobbes compare the dissolution of a commonwealth?
(a) poor hygiene
(b) an intestine disorder
(c) an attack of the flu
(d) cancer

3. What two factors does Hobbes believe control mental discourse?
(a) Vocabulary and definitions
(b) Desire and fear
(c) Education and experience
(d) Love and hate

4. What is one instance when a crime cannot be punished?
(a) a perpetrator is incapable of knowing right and wrong
(b) an act is committed before there was a law forbidding it
(c) an act is claimed to be by order of the sovereign
(d) the crime has not been discovered

5. What is the end result of worshiping?
(a) giving someone power
(b) showing superiority
(c) mental exercise
(d) hole in the knees of trousers

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Hobbes say people attribute that which is unknown?

2. How does Hobbes say a commonwealth is taken by acquisition?

3. What must punishment focus on?

4. How does Hobbes classify a person who speaks for himself?

5. What example does Hobbes give as a crime that is not a crime?

(see the answer key)

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