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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. To be sure one has found reason, what is necessary?
(a) The soverign must be consulted.
(b) All affirmations and negations must be considered.
(c) The negations must be discarded.
(d) It must stand the test of time.

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

3. What type of book is LEVIATHAN?
(a) A book about large fish
(b) A book of political philosophy
(c) A book about comparative religion
(d) A science fiction book

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hobbes say about controlling thoughts?

2. How does Hobbes describe his compound imagination?

3. Why does Hobbes say the multitude cannot protest against the sovereign?

4. What does Hobbes call a crime?

5. Why does law need interpretation?

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