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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 is one instance when a crime cannot be punished?
(a) a perpetrator is incapable of knowing right and wrong
(b) the crime has not been discovered
(c) an act is committed before there was a law forbidding it
(d) an act is claimed to be by order of the sovereign

2. How may a commonwealth be formed?
(a) the first is by natural force or acquisition and the second is by mutual agreement.
(b) the first is by experience and the second is by heredity
(c) the first is by election and the second is by popularity
(d) the first is by inheritance and the second is by accident

3. Why does Hobbes say men will give up some of their freedoms?
(a) when they go to prison
(b) when it does not cost them anything
(c) to seek protection for their lives and those of their family
(d) when they are given other freedoms in return

4. What kind of idea does Hobbes classify as good wit?
(a) one open to argument and debate
(b) one so unique that nobody else would have thought of it
(c) one that produces only good results
(d) one that everyone can agree to

5. Why do people want to make a covenant and select sovereigns?
(a) to rid themselves of political uneasiness
(b) to be like the other commonweaths around them
(c) to allow for orderly disagreement
(d) to prevent having to relinquish freedoms

Short Answer Questions

1. In political systems, what are the two avenues of laws?

2. What does Hobbes call the blood flow of a commonwealth?

3. How does Hobbes identify political systems?

4. Who does Hobbes insist is of the greatest value to a commonwealth?

5. What does Hobbes accept when peace is impossible?

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