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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. Why do people want to make a covenant and select sovereigns?
(a) to allow for orderly disagreement
(b) to prevent having to relinquish freedoms
(c) to be like the other commonweaths around them
(d) to rid themselves of political uneasiness

2. How does Hobbes classify intellectual virtue?
(a) having insight into spiritual matters
(b) having natural innocence
(c) having natural wit or a quick imagination
(d) having a high IQ

3. Why does Hobbes contend that no sovereign can do wrong to anyone under his authority?
(a) The sovereign is led by God.
(b) There is divine Right of Kings.
(c) The sovereign is exempt from making mistakes.
(d) They entered into the contract to create the sovereign.

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

5. How does Hobbes define injustice of an action?
(a) a lawsuit
(b) accidents
(c) premeditation
(d) injury

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the sovereign's right in legal matters?

3. What does Hobbes say is needed to protect people from danger?

4. What type of book is LEVIATHAN?

5. What does Hobbes call reasoning with oneself?

(see the answer key)

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