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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. To be sure one has found reason, what is necessary?
(a) The soverign must be consulted.
(b) The negations must be discarded.
(c) All affirmations and negations must be considered.
(d) It must stand the test of time.
2. What two factors does Hobbes believe control mental discourse?
(a) Vocabulary and definitions
(b) Love and hate
(c) Education and experience
(d) Desire and fear
3. What is a counselor's disadvantage in speaking only to one man?
(a) He can be misquoted.
(b) He can be interrupted.
(c) He can be more forceful.
(d) He can be attacked.
4. Why does Hobbes say that people attribute the unknown to ghosts, spirits, or other things that can never exist?
(a) They have experienced the supernatural.
(b) They do not know how to think logically.
(c) They have had experience with seances.
(d) They believe in astrology.
5. What is Hobbes' idea about ownership of commodities in a commonwealth?
(a) Only native commodities belong to the sovereign.
(b) People own what they work for.
(c) Nobody owns commodities in a commonwealth.
(d) All commodities naturally belong to the sovereign.
6. What does Hobbes call the intention to do wrong or harm another?
(a) absence of forethought
(b) nothing illegal
(c) injustice before the action is carried out
(d) a bad idea
7. Who does Hobbes insist is of the greatest value to a commonwealth?
(a) the teacher
(b) the banker
(c) the sovreign
(d) the minister
8. How can it be said that each man in a group has a voice?
(a) because their representative shares their same opinions
(b) because they get to speak one by one
(c) because no deaf mute is allowed to participate
(d) because they all speak in unison
9. What needs to be given to the shy people?
(a) laws to prevent their abuse
(b) an economic bailout package
(c) large amounts of financial aid
(d) encouragement to get out and attain what the others have
10. Where does Hobbes insist people go when they disagree?
(a) To a priest
(b) To the boxing ring
(c) To a judge
(d) To a teacher
11. How does Hobbes describe his compound imagination?
(a) Like seeing a carriage and a house and imagining a train
(b) Like seeing a dog and a cat and imagining a kangaroo
(c) Like seeing a man and a horse and imagining a centaur
(d) Like seeing an appl and an orange and imagining a melon
12. How does Hobbes say a commonwealth is taken by acquisition?
(a) In fear of death, men surrender to the new commonwealth
(b) Money is exchanged for the new territory.
(c) Adjacent territory is annexed by vote.
(d) People ask to join a bigger commonwealth.
13. What is the first right of a sovereign power?
(a) the right to own slaves
(b) the right to live in a palace
(c) the right to keep changing the laws to its advantage
(d) the right to remain in power
14. Why does Hobbes say the multitude cannot protest against the sovereign?
(a) They have no voice.
(b) They will destroy the commonwealth.
(c) They will be beheaded.
(d) They voluntarily entered into the covenant.
15. How does Hobbes see the commonwealth?
(a) Like a steam engine
(b) Like a church
(c) Like an artificial man
(d) Like an army
Short Answer Questions
1. What is a fundamental interest on the part of a counselor?
2. What does Hobbes identify as the two ways one can hold sway over others?
3. When a multitude becomes one group, what must they select?
4. What does Hobbes say leads to competition among people?
5. To what does Hobbes say people attribute that which is unknown?
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