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

2. How does Hobbes classify intellectual virtue?
(a) having natural wit or a quick imagination
(b) having a high IQ
(c) having natural innocence
(d) having insight into spiritual matters

3. What is Hobbes' idea about self-protection in natural law?
(a) In nature, every person has the right to protect his own life.
(b) It is not natural to protect oneself, it should be done by the commonwealth.
(c) With people it is not necessary.
(d) Humans have a right to preemptive strikes.

4. How does Hobbes classify discourse that cannot be proven?
(a) opinion
(b) attitudes
(c) theorems
(d) scientific

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Hobbes insist is of the greatest value to a commonwealth?

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

3. What are some of his voluntary motions?

4. What are examples of Hobbes' involuntary motions?

5. What does Hobbes call reasoning with oneself?

(see the answer key)

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