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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. How does Hobbes classify intellectual virtue?
(a) having natural wit or a quick imagination
(b) having a high IQ
(c) having insight into spiritual matters
(d) having natural innocence

2. What is the punishment of exile?
(a) when a person is banished from the commonwealth
(b) when a person is discredited and shamed
(c) when a person is put in prison
(d) when a person's property is confiscated

3. How does Hobbes define a pact or covenant?
(a) when money changes hands
(b) when something is sold or traded
(c) when something is transferred or traded for future payment
(d) when any promise is made

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

5. In political systems, what are the two avenues of laws?
(a) One is by traditions, and the second is by innovation.
(b) One is their own written laws, the other is laws of the sovereign.
(c) One is by a constitution and the other is by police power.
(d) One is by revolution, and the other is by civil disobedience.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Hobbes say is a hostile and illegal act by the authority?

3. How does Hobbes identify political systems?

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

5. Why does Hobbes say men will give up some of their freedoms?

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