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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 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

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

3. How does Hobbes suggest that people reason?
(a) By adding or subtracting two thoughts
(b) By first getting burned
(c) By mathematical equations
(d) By counting on fingers and toes

4. What type of book is LEVIATHAN?
(a) A science fiction book
(b) A book of political philosophy
(c) A book about comparative religion
(d) A book about large fish

5. What does Hobbes say people are either born with or develop?
(a) hair and fingernails
(b) personalities and names
(c) fingers and toes
(d) appetites and aversions

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hobbes think of using metaphors?

2. Why does Hobbes say that virtue is comparative?

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

4. What two factors does Hobbes believe control mental discourse?

5. What is the term he uses for reasoning with another person?

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