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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 warning does Hobbes give about prophets?
(a) Some may be prophets only for a short time.
(b) Some people may try to pass themselves off as a prophet for their own gain.
(c) Some may not understand what God wants them to say.
(d) Some may be too powerful and miraculous to trust.

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

3. Who cannot perform a miracle?
(a) a devil, angel, or other spirit
(b) an apostle of Christ
(c) a prophet of God
(d) a true believer in God

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

5. What does Hobbes define as moral virtues?
(a) sharing, educating, explaining, and contributing
(b) justice, gratitude, modesty, equity, and mercy
(c) fearing, obeying, ordering, and supplanting
(d) conforming, working, learning, and manufacturing

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hobbes define injustice of an action?

2. What is needed to be able to judge what is just or unjust?

3. What does Hobbes mean by anything spoken by God and those concerning Him and his government?

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

5. Why does law need interpretation?

(see the answer key)

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