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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. Why does Hobbes say that having friends, followers, and servants is the greatest power?
(a) With friends, followers, and servants one does not need to work.
(b) Being liked and respected makes people good managers and motivators.
(c) Having these, one does not need to go to war.
(d) Having these, one does not need anything else.

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

3. How does Hobbes describe his compound imagination?
(a) Like seeing a carriage and a house and imagining a train
(b) Like seeing a man and a horse and imagining a centaur
(c) Like seeing an appl and an orange and imagining a melon
(d) Like seeing a dog and a cat and imagining a kangaroo

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hobbes say ends a discourse?

2. Why does Hobbes say that people attribute the unknown to ghosts, spirits, or other things that can never exist?

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

4. What are some of his voluntary motions?

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

(see the answer key)

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