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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 does Hobbes think of using metaphors?
(a) They are improper.
(b) They cost too much.
(c) They are useful.
(d) They are never understood.

2. Where does Hobbes insist people go when they disagree?
(a) To a priest
(b) To a teacher
(c) To the boxing ring
(d) To a judge

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

4. What is a counselor's disadvantage in speaking only to one man?
(a) He can be misquoted.
(b) He can be more forceful.
(c) He can be interrupted.
(d) He can be attacked.

5. What does Hobbes identify as the two ways one can hold sway over others?
(a) counsel and command
(b) charisma and intelligence
(c) power and control
(d) money and gifts

Short Answer Questions

1. What are some of his voluntary motions?

2. What does Hobbes call a third law of nature?

3. Why does law need interpretation?

4. To what does Hobbes say people attribute that which is unknown?

5. Which two forms of government need not worry about succession?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Hobbes insist that the people cannot protest against a sovereign?

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

3. How does Hobbes say competition comes into human relations?

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

5. Give Hobbes' idea about how much a country needs individuals.

6. What are the three sovereignties Hobbes defines?

7. In any political situation, what does Hobbes identify as a basic right?

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

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

10. How does Hobbes say a person can increase intellectual virtue?

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