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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 can the commonwealth do to check bad behavior of its citizens?
(a) Increase the quality of education.
(b) Put power limits on subjects of the nation.
(c) Put everyone into servitude.
(d) Provide everything for the subjects.

2. To be sure one has found reason, what is necessary?
(a) All affirmations and negations must be considered.
(b) The soverign must be consulted.
(c) The negations must be discarded.
(d) It must stand the test of time.

3. How does Hobbes define a pact or covenant?
(a) when any promise is made
(b) when something is transferred or traded for future payment
(c) when something is sold or traded
(d) when money changes hands

4. What does Hobbes identify as three basic human fears?
(a) fear of being robbed, raped, or ousted from their homes
(b) fear of snakes, spideers, and scorpions
(c) fear of work, being social, and talking too much
(d) fear of the dark, the weather, and wild animals

5. What is an example of Hobbes' unprovable discourse?
(a) whether cows talk
(b) if God exists or not
(c) which way the wind blows
(d) the law of gravity

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hobbes see the commonwealth?

2. How does Hobbes classify intellectual virtue?

3. What is Hobbes' only conditionality regarding all people being created equal?

4. What are some of his voluntary motions?

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

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