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

2. What are examples of Hobbes' involuntary motions?
(a) breathing, blood flow, and other bodily functions
(b) planning, acting, and rejoicing
(c) thinking, eating, and reading
(d) writing, feeling, and sleeping

3. What does Hobbes say a person is doing when he stops defending himself?
(a) practicing the Golden Rule
(b) doing the right thing
(c) depending on the commonwealth
(d) surrendering his life and his possessions

4. Why does Hobbes insist that the commonwealth is born out of human politics?
(a) It is established on a basis of faith in God.
(b) It is established in obedience, laws, peace, charity and civil society
(c) It is established on scientific principles only.
(d) It is established on the basis of the good of the soverign.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What, left uncontrolled, does Hobbes say can lead to misery and unhappiness?

4. How does Hobbes suggest that people reason?

5. What can the commonwealth do to check bad behavior of its citizens?

(see the answer key)

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