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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2 Chapter 28.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Hobbes insist is of the greatest value to a commonwealth?
(a) the sovreign
(b) the teacher
(c) the banker
(d) the minister

3. What does Hobbes say is a hostile and illegal act by the authority?
(a) holding trials too quickly after a crime has been charged
(b) indictment after very long investigations
(c) searches of a person's homes
(d) a person is injured by public authority without public condemnation

4. What does Hobbes say is the purpose of punishment?
(a) to show who is boss
(b) to prevent people from breaking the law
(c) to have a public entertainment when someone is flogged
(d) to keep the criminals off the streets

5. What two systems does Hobbes define within a commonwealth?
(a) tyranny and ordinary
(b) private and political
(c) open and closed
(d) democrat and republican

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Hobbes suggest it is not logical to follow the Golden Rule?

2. Why does Hobbes say that having friends, followers, and servants is the greatest power?

3. What does Hobbes call an evil inflicted on a person who has usurped or forged his or her power?

4. Why must people create a covenant or agreement to give power to one person, or small group of people?

5. Why do people want to make a covenant and select sovereigns?

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