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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 call a third law of nature?
(a) justice
(b) security
(c) the inevitability of death
(d) habitation

2. What option does Hobbes say everyone has?
(a) to live in misery or happiness
(b) to talk or be quiet
(c) to live or die
(d) to work or play

3. What is the first right of a sovereign power?
(a) the right to keep changing the laws to its advantage
(b) the right to live in a palace
(c) the right to remain in power
(d) the right to own slaves

4. What is the sovereign power, whether it is an individual or an assembly?
(a) the senate
(b) the courts
(c) the representative of the commonwealth
(d) a king and his court

5. Who does Hobbes insist is of the greatest value to a commonwealth?
(a) the minister
(b) the teacher
(c) the sovreign
(d) the banker

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Hobbes classify the person or group of people who have someone speak for them?

3. What example does Hobbes give to support his idea that just banding together is not enough for protection?

4. What does Hobbes call the intention to do wrong or harm another?

5. Why does Hobbes say that virtue is comparative?

(see the answer key)

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