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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 Chapters 11 & 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Hobbes say that having friends, followers, and servants is the greatest power?
(a) Having these, one does not need anything else.
(b) Having these, one does not need to go to war.
(c) Being liked and respected makes people good managers and motivators.
(d) With friends, followers, and servants one does not need to work.

2. What does Hobbes say leads to competition among people?
(a) different abilities
(b) religion
(c) different interests
(d) restless desire

3. What kinds of questions does Hobbes say people have little interest in?
(a) things that have to do with the supernatural
(b) things that involve faith
(c) things that have absolute answers like math and science
(d) things that have no known answers

4. What are some of his voluntary motions?
(a) feelings like desire, appetite, love and hate
(b) functions like pulse and respiration
(c) activities like hearing and seeing
(d) internals like digesting and breathing

5. What is the term he uses for reasoning with another person?
(a) Signifying
(b) Stygmatizing
(c) Arguing
(d) disconcerting

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hobbes say people are either born with or develop?

2. What does Hobbes say ends a discourse?

3. What are examples of Hobbes' involuntary motions?

4. To be sure one has found reason, what is necessary?

5. What kind of idea does Hobbes classify as good wit?

(see the answer key)

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