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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2 Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hobbes say people are either born with or develop?
(a) hair and fingernails
(b) appetites and aversions
(c) fingers and toes
(d) personalities and names

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

3. What results are there when an actor makes a contract?
(a) The author is also bound.
(b) The contract must be approved.
(c) The author is not bound to it.
(d) The contract is invalid.

4. What does Hobbes say about controlling thoughts?
(a) People learn to do it at an early age.
(b) People cannot always do it.
(c) The commonwealth controls thoughts.
(d) Thought should not be controlled.

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hobbes think of using metaphors?

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

3. Why does Hobbes say men will give up some of their freedoms?

4. Why does Hobbes say the multitude cannot protest against the sovereign?

5. How can it be said that each man in a group has a voice?

(see the answer key)

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