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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2 Chapter 28.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Hobbes classify intellectual virtue?
(a) having natural innocence
(b) having natural wit or a quick imagination
(c) having a high IQ
(d) having insight into spiritual matters
2. 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.
3. In political systems, what are the two avenues of laws?
(a) One is their own written laws, the other is laws of the sovereign.
(b) One is by traditions, and the second is by innovation.
(c) One is by a constitution and the other is by police power.
(d) One is by revolution, and the other is by civil disobedience.
4. Why do people want to make a covenant and select sovereigns?
(a) to prevent having to relinquish freedoms
(b) to allow for orderly disagreement
(c) to rid themselves of political uneasiness
(d) to be like the other commonweaths around them
5. How does Hobbes identify political systems?
(a) those which are entirely run by negotiation
(b) those which are granted status by the sovereign
(c) those which are only governed by an assembly
(d) thise which are regulated by majority consensus
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the punishment of exile?
2. What is one instance when a crime cannot be punished?
3. What does Hobbes accept when peace is impossible?
4. How does Hobbes define punishment?
5. When does Hobbes suggest it is not logical to follow the Golden Rule?
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