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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2 Chapter 31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the end result of worshiping?
(a) showing superiority
(b) mental exercise
(c) giving someone power
(d) hole in the knees of trousers

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

3. What causes the people of a nation to become very angry and pass on their anger to their children?
(a) a sovereign who will not go to war
(b) a leader who is only after power
(c) a period of recession
(d) a leader who travels a lot

4. What does Hobbes call a third law of nature?
(a) justice
(b) habitation
(c) the inevitability of death
(d) security

5. Why, according to Hobbes, is it necessary to believe God is Infinite?
(a) It is the only way to understand who God is.
(b) God is a concept and not a person.
(c) The finite has an end and God does not.
(d) God will accept nothing less.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Hobbes say there is no crime?

2. Why do people want to make a covenant and select sovereigns?

3. What is the one exception to a defense of not knowing the law?

4. What kinds of questions does Hobbes say people have little interest in?

5. What does Hobbes think of using metaphors?

(see the answer key)

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