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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hobbes say people are either born with or develop?
(a) fingers and toes
(b) hair and fingernails
(c) personalities and names
(d) appetites and aversions

2. 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 grows tired of talking and shuts up.
(d) A person runs out of anything to say.

3. When does Hobbes suggest it is not logical to follow the Golden Rule?
(a) during a natural disaster
(b) when there are no other people around
(c) in times of war
(d) when no one else is following it

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

5. What does the commonwealth need to successfully control the society?
(a) ample money to maintain the economy
(b) the cooperation of neighboring principalities
(c) power over people to administer punishments
(d) important welfare programs to help the poor

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hobbes identify as the two ways one can hold sway over others?

2. What is Hobbes' idea about ownership of commodities in a commonwealth?

3. What can a man do when speaking to a group?

4. What is the second right of the sovereign?

5. How does Hobbes say a commonwealth is taken by acquisition?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hobbes define the origins of religion?

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

3. How does Hobbes extol the idea of the commonwealth?

4. How does Hobbes identify skepticism in regards to belief?

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

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

7. How does Hobbes say competition comes into human relations?

8. What does Hobbes say about justice, gratitude, modesty, equity, and mercy?

9. What is one advantage Hobbes sees in a monarchy?

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

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