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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3 Chapters 36 & 37.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is needed to be able to judge what is just or unjust?
(a) statistics
(b) lawyers
(c) contracts
(d) judges

2. What does Hobbes mean when he says something must be strange and uncommon so people can believe it is the true work of God?
(a) a miracle
(b) a messenger
(c) a migraine
(d) a meditation

3. Who is a person who speaks directly to God and is a predictor of the future according to Hobbes?
(a) a visionary
(b) a vizier
(c) a soothsayer
(d) a prophet

4. When is there nothing illegal or unjust in any action done by anyone?
(a) when there are guidelines
(b) when the commonwealth is too spread out
(c) when there is no commonwealth
(d) when no one is looking

5. What does Hobbes call a third law of nature?
(a) justice
(b) security
(c) habitation
(d) the inevitability of death

Short Answer Questions

1. How must a counselor speak?

2. What is a counselor's disadvantage in speaking only to one man?

3. How does Hobbes define injustice of an action?

4. Why does law need interpretation?

5. What is a fundamental interest on the part of a counselor?

(see the answer key)

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