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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. What results are there when an actor makes a contract?
(a) The contract must be approved.
(b) The author is not bound to it.
(c) The contract is invalid.
(d) The author is also bound.

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

3. Why can passion for power be dangerous?
(a) People can be electrocuted.
(b) People cannot achieve it.
(c) People can be deceived.
(d) People can use evil means to get power.

4. How does Hobbes classify the person or group of people who have someone speak for them?
(a) As dummies
(b) As helpless
(c) As actors
(d) As uneducated

5. Who does Hobbes insist is of the greatest value to a commonwealth?
(a) the sovreign
(b) the banker
(c) the teacher
(d) the minister

Short Answer Questions

1. How may a commonwealth be formed?

2. What does Hobbes say a person is doing when he stops defending himself?

3. How does Hobbes identify political systems?

4. What is a counselor's disadvantage in speaking only to one man?

5. What does Hobbes describe as an external sign of God's special workings on their hearts so that afterwards they teach the Word of God?

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