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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. What two factors does Hobbes believe control mental discourse?
(a) Education and experience
(b) Desire and fear
(c) Vocabulary and definitions
(d) Love and hate

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

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

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

5. What kind of idea does Hobbes classify as good wit?
(a) one that produces only good results
(b) one so unique that nobody else would have thought of it
(c) one that everyone can agree to
(d) one open to argument and debate

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hobbes see the commonwealth?

2. What does Hobbes think of using metaphors?

3. Where does Hobbes insist people go when they disagree?

4. How does Hobbes suggest that people reason?

5. Why does Hobbes insist that the commonwealth is born out of human politics?

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