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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 will be beheaded.
(b) They will destroy the commonwealth.
(c) They have no voice.
(d) They voluntarily entered into the covenant.

2. What is needed to be able to judge what is just or unjust?
(a) lawyers
(b) judges
(c) contracts
(d) statistics

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

4. How does Hobbes define a monarchy?
(a) In a monarchy, the assembly holds power.
(b) In a monarchy, only one man has power.
(c) In a monarchy, all the people hold power.
(d) In a monarchy, only the nobles hold power.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hobbes define injustice of an action?

2. How does Hobbes classify a person who speaks for himself?

3. What does Hobbes say ends a discourse?

4. What does Hobbes say a person is doing when he stops defending himself?

5. What do counsels for the aristocracy generally do?

(see the answer key)

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