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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3 Chapter 38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second right of the sovereign?
(a) The sovereign cannot be forced to go to war.
(b) The sovereign cannot be forfeited.
(c) The sovereign can name all successors.
(d) The sovereign may travel as often as necessary.

2. What do counsels for the aristocracy generally do?
(a) Last for days or even months
(b) Offer plans for governing change
(c) Serve no useful purpose
(d) Excite the multitude to create change

3. Why must people create a covenant or agreement to give power to one person, or small group of people?
(a) Some think too highly of themselves or blow things out of proportion.
(b) Too many cooks spoil the broth.
(c) That is the natural way of doing things.
(d) It is not possible to assemble all the people all the time.

4. How does Hobbes say people can poison others and thus promote the dissolution of the commonwealth?
(a) with tainted drinking water
(b) with bad doctrines
(c) wit arsenic
(d) with religion

5. What is Hobbes' idea about ownership of commodities in a commonwealth?
(a) Nobody owns commodities in a commonwealth.
(b) All commodities naturally belong to the sovereign.
(c) Only native commodities belong to the sovereign.
(d) People own what they work for.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hobbes define liberty?

2. What happens in an assembly that cannot happen with a monarch?

3. What does Hobbes say a person is doing when he stops defending himself?

4. For what is it required to pay a certain price God is willing to accept?

5. What does Hobbes call a crime?

(see the answer key)

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