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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second right of the sovereign?

2. What two factors does Hobbes believe control mental discourse?

3. Why do people want to make a covenant and select sovereigns?

4. Where does Hobbes insist people go when they disagree?

5. Why does Hobbes say the multitude cannot protest against the sovereign?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hobbes describe a despotic dominion?

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

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

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

5. How does Hobbes define justice?

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

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

8. What does Hobbes say about rights in the natural world?

9. Why does Hobbes say that people fear other people?

10. How does Hobbes illustrate what he calls compound imagination?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on how the political condition of the times may have influenced Hobbes' thinking. You may need to do a bit of research into the times and how Hobbes, once in great favor with the nobility, had fallen out of their favor.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay on whether you agree with Hobbes that the power of the sovereign cannot be challenged. Think in terms of sovereign powers today and what they are like when the right of challenge is removed from the people.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about Hobbes' obvious preference for a monarchy but lumps all types of sovereignty together in his book. In this essay discuss Hobbes as either a consummate diplomat or a political opportunist. This is not verifiable historically and will be your opinion only after reading his book.

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