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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 are examples of Hobbes' involuntary motions?
(a) breathing, blood flow, and other bodily functions
(b) writing, feeling, and sleeping
(c) thinking, eating, and reading
(d) planning, acting, and rejoicing

2. Why does Hobbes say it is natural for the mother to have dominion over children?
(a) They have dominion over nothing else.
(b) They are naturals at discipline.
(c) They need children in case the husband dies.
(d) It is not always known who the father is.

3. Why does Hobbes say that people attribute the unknown to ghosts, spirits, or other things that can never exist?
(a) They do not know how to think logically.
(b) They believe in astrology.
(c) They have had experience with seances.
(d) They have experienced the supernatural.

4. How can it be said that each man in a group has a voice?
(a) because their representative shares their same opinions
(b) because no deaf mute is allowed to participate
(c) because they get to speak one by one
(d) because they all speak in unison

5. Why do people want to make a covenant and select sovereigns?
(a) to rid themselves of political uneasiness
(b) to be like the other commonweaths around them
(c) to prevent having to relinquish freedoms
(d) to allow for orderly disagreement

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has responsibility for seeing that others are educated in the law?

2. What does Hobbes identify as the two ways one can hold sway over others?

3. How does Hobbes classify intellectual virtue?

4. How must a counselor speak?

5. What is a counselor's disadvantage in speaking only to one man?

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