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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What option does Hobbes say everyone has?
(a) to live or die
(b) to live in misery or happiness
(c) to work or play
(d) to talk or be quiet

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

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

4. To what does Hobbes say people attribute that which is unknown?
(a) to God and religion
(b) to scientific researsh
(c) to ghosts and spirits
(d) to imagination

5. What does Hobbes say ends a discourse?
(a) A person grows tired of talking and shuts up.
(b) A person learns the answer to a question or he/she gives up.
(c) A person runs out of anything to say.
(d) A person speaks a different language.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hobbes suggest that people reason?

2. What kinds of questions does Hobbes say people have little interest in?

3. What does Hobbes identify as three basic human fears?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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