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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2 Chapter 20 & 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Hobbes say the multitude cannot protest against the sovereign?
(a) They voluntarily entered into the covenant.
(b) They will destroy the commonwealth.
(c) They have no voice.
(d) They will be beheaded.

2. Where can a monarch go for advice?
(a) special elections
(b) counsel he has appointed for that purpose
(c) public opinion polls
(d) only to God

3. What do counsels for the aristocracy generally do?
(a) Offer plans for governing change
(b) Last for days or even months
(c) Excite the multitude to create change
(d) Serve no useful purpose

4. How does Hobbes classify the person or group of people who have someone speak for them?
(a) As helpless
(b) As dummies
(c) As actors
(d) As uneducated

5. What does Hobbes say is needed to protect people from danger?
(a) strong churches
(b) a strong militia
(c) a choice of weapons
(d) civil laws

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hobbes say that virtue is comparative?

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

3. What is the first right of a sovereign power?

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

5. How does Hobbes classify intellectual virtue?

(see the answer key)

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