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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 Chapters 11 & 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are examples of Hobbes' involuntary motions?
(a) breathing, blood flow, and other bodily functions
(b) thinking, eating, and reading
(c) planning, acting, and rejoicing
(d) writing, feeling, and sleeping

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

3. How does Hobbes classify intellectual virtue?
(a) having natural wit or a quick imagination
(b) having a high IQ
(c) having insight into spiritual matters
(d) having natural innocence

4. What example does Hobbes give as a meaningless combination of words?
(a) easy labor
(b) gentle giant
(c) holy war
(d) round square

5. What kinds of questions does Hobbes say people have little interest in?
(a) things that involve faith
(b) things that have absolute answers like math and science
(c) things that have to do with the supernatural
(d) things that have no known answers

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hobbes describe his compound imagination?

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

3. How does Hobbes classify discourse that cannot be proven?

4. Why does Hobbes say that people attribute the unknown to ghosts, spirits, or other things that can never exist?

5. What does Hobbes say about controlling thoughts?

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