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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 are some of his voluntary motions?
(a) feelings like desire, appetite, love and hate
(b) functions like pulse and respiration
(c) internals like digesting and breathing
(d) activities like hearing and seeing

2. What does Hobbes say a person is doing when he stops defending himself?
(a) surrendering his life and his possessions
(b) practicing the Golden Rule
(c) depending on the commonwealth
(d) doing the right thing

3. What, left uncontrolled, does Hobbes say can lead to misery and unhappiness?
(a) personality, education, and drive
(b) competition, harmful shyness, and vain glory
(c) pride, sloth, and gluttany
(d) hunger, alcohol, and hedonism

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

5. Why does Hobbes say that people are always seeking more power, wealth, or popularity?
(a) People are like animals.
(b) People are restless.
(c) People believe in the supernatural.
(d) People can think.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Hobbes think of using metaphors?

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

4. Why does Hobbes say that virtue is comparative?

5. What kind of idea does Hobbes classify as good wit?

(see the answer key)

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