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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Hobbes say ends a discourse?
(a) A person learns the answer to a question or he/she gives up.
(b) A person runs out of anything to say.
(c) A person speaks a different language.
(d) A person grows tired of talking and shuts up.

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

4. How does Hobbes define a pact or covenant?
(a) when something is transferred or traded for future payment
(b) when something is sold or traded
(c) when any promise is made
(d) when money changes hands

5. To what does Hobbes say people attribute that which is unknown?
(a) to God and religion
(b) to scientific researsh
(c) to ghosts and spirits
(d) to imagination

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hobbes describe his compound imagination?

2. How does Hobbes see the commonwealth?

3. What option does Hobbes say everyone has?

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

5. What does Hobbes call reasoning with oneself?

(see the answer key)

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