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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. How does Hobbes see the commonwealth?
(a) Like an army
(b) Like a church
(c) Like an artificial man
(d) Like a steam engine

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

3. Who is it that Hobbes says belong to the Kingdom of God?
(a) only people who are members of the Church of England
(b) the sovereigns who answer only to God
(c) those people who believe there is a God
(d) every person under the sun

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

5. What does Hobbes call a sin?
(a) thinking about doing something illegal
(b) a transgression or a breach of laws that the legislature created
(c) a moral transgression that everyone knows about
(d) breaking any one of the Ten Commandments

Short Answer Questions

1. What is needed to be able to judge what is just or unjust?

2. What do counsels for the aristocracy generally do?

3. What is Hobbes' idea about self-protection in natural law?

4. When a multitude becomes one group, what must they select?

5. In political systems, what are the two avenues of laws?

(see the answer key)

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