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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4 Chapter 45.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the first right of a sovereign power?
(a) the right to keep changing the laws to its advantage
(b) the right to live in a palace
(c) the right to own slaves
(d) the right to remain in power

3. What is Hobbes' position on mothers and their children?
(a) The mother is the natural owner of the children.
(b) The state owns all children.
(c) Mothers have no rights to children.
(d) Mothers will abandon their children.

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

5. Who cannot perform a miracle?
(a) an apostle of Christ
(b) a devil, angel, or other spirit
(c) a prophet of God
(d) a true believer in God

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hobbes say that virtue is comparative?

2. What can the commonwealth do to check bad behavior of its citizens?

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

4. What does Hobbes say only God knows?

5. Why does Hobbes suggest popular figures could be a danger to the commonwealth?

(see the answer key)

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