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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3 Chapters 39, 40, & 41.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why, according to Hobbes, is it necessary to believe God is Infinite?
(a) God is a concept and not a person.
(b) God will accept nothing less.
(c) The finite has an end and God does not.
(d) It is the only way to understand who God is.

3. 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

4. What is a counselor's disadvantage in speaking only to one man?
(a) He can be misquoted.
(b) He can be more forceful.
(c) He can be interrupted.
(d) He can be attacked.

5. What does Hobbes say a person is doing when he stops defending himself?
(a) surrendering his life and his possessions
(b) depending on the commonwealth
(c) doing the right thing
(d) practicing the Golden Rule

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What do counsels for the aristocracy generally do?

4. Why does Hobbes say that virtue is comparative?

5. How does Hobbes define a pact or covenant?

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