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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3 Chapter 38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hobbes call a sin?
(a) breaking any one of the Ten Commandments
(b) a moral transgression that everyone knows about
(c) a transgression or a breach of laws that the legislature created
(d) thinking about doing something illegal

2. Who has responsibility for seeing that others are educated in the law?
(a) clergimen and philosophers
(b) parents and the universities
(c) nurses and lawyers
(d) the assembly or the multitude

3. How does Hobbes see the commonwealth?
(a) Like a steam engine
(b) Like an artificial man
(c) Like a church
(d) Like an army

4. How does Hobbes say people can poison others and thus promote the dissolution of the commonwealth?
(a) with tainted drinking water
(b) with bad doctrines
(c) wit arsenic
(d) with religion

5. 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 period of recession
(c) a leader who is only after power
(d) a leader who travels a lot

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hobbes suggest popular figures could be a danger to the commonwealth?

2. How can it be said that each man in a group has a voice?

3. How does Hobbes classify discourse that cannot be proven?

4. What does Hobbes identify as security against all evil, sickness, and death?

5. What results are there when an actor makes a contract?

(see the answer key)

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