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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 seems to be a contradiction in Hobbes' attitude toward protest?
(a) People are legally able to protest a political system, but not against the sovereign.
(b) People can legally protest but they can only do it openly.
(c) People can protest but they cannot organize.
(d) People cannot protest but they can camgaign for change.

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

3. What example does Hobbes give to support his idea that just banding together is not enough for protection?
(a) A hundred rabbits can scare a hunter.
(b) Twenty sheep cannot fight off a pack of wolves.
(c) A flock of birds cannot defeat the cat.
(d) Two families joined are not powerful enough to combat three families.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hobbes say that virtue is comparative?

2. What is Hobbes' idea about ownership of commodities in a commonwealth?

3. Why can passion for power be dangerous?

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

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

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