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

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

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

4. How does Hobbes define punishment?
(a) doing away with the death penalty
(b) an evil inflicted when a subject has committed a crime
(c) not sparing the rod and spoiling the child
(d) putting innocent people in prison

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) a perpetrator is incapable of knowing right and wrong
(d) the crime has not been discovered

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What two systems does Hobbes define within a commonwealth?

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

5. How does Hobbes define a pact or covenant?

(see the answer key)

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