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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Hobbes call a dominion acquired by conquest?
(a) Natural
(b) Democratic
(c) Despotical
(d) Impoversihed

3. Why does Hobbes insist that the commonwealth is born out of human politics?
(a) It is established on the basis of the good of the soverign.
(b) It is established in obedience, laws, peace, charity and civil society
(c) It is established on a basis of faith in God.
(d) It is established on scientific principles only.

4. How can it be said that each man in a group has a voice?
(a) because no deaf mute is allowed to participate
(b) because they all speak in unison
(c) because they get to speak one by one
(d) because their representative shares their same opinions

5. What does Hobbes define as moral virtues?
(a) justice, gratitude, modesty, equity, and mercy
(b) fearing, obeying, ordering, and supplanting
(c) sharing, educating, explaining, and contributing
(d) conforming, working, learning, and manufacturing

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does law need interpretation?

2. How does Hobbes see the commonwealth?

3. When does Hobbes suggest it is not logical to follow the Golden Rule?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe briefly Hobbes' contract of a commonwealth.

2. What are the two ways Hobbes says a commonwealth is created?

3. Relate Hobbes' examples of a contract or a covenant.

4. What does Hobbes say about having an aversion to something people know nothing about?

5. What does Hobbes say about justice, gratitude, modesty, equity, and mercy?

6. How does Hobbes identify skepticism in regards to belief?

7. How does Hobbes say that a group may be classified as an author?

8. In what way does Hobbes warn against errors in logic or speech?

9. Why does Hobbes say men will give up some of their freedoms?

10. Briefly, what does Hobbes have to say about lawful and unlawful systems?

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