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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 seems to be a contradiction in Hobbes' attitude toward protest?
(a) People can legally protest but they can only do it openly.
(b) People cannot protest but they can camgaign for change.
(c) People are legally able to protest a political system, but not against the sovereign.
(d) People can protest but they cannot organize.

2. To what does Hobbes compare the dissolution of a commonwealth?
(a) cancer
(b) an attack of the flu
(c) poor hygiene
(d) an intestine disorder

3. What does Hobbes accept when peace is impossible?
(a) surrender
(b) hiding
(c) diplomacy
(d) war

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

5. Why does Hobbes insist that the commonwealth is born out of human politics?
(a) It is established in obedience, laws, peace, charity and civil society
(b) It is established on the basis of the good of the soverign.
(c) It is established on a basis of faith in God.
(d) It is established on scientific principles only.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What option does Hobbes say everyone has?

3. When many people first get together, what are they called?

4. What does Hobbes call a third law of nature?

5. What does Hobbes identify as three basic human fears?

(see the answer key)

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