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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 say is a hostile and illegal act by the authority?
(a) a person is injured by public authority without public condemnation
(b) indictment after very long investigations
(c) searches of a person's homes
(d) holding trials too quickly after a crime has been charged

2. What does Hobbes call an evil inflicted on a person who has usurped or forged his or her power?
(a) a vigilante form of government
(b) an act of hostility
(c) necessary punishment
(d) might makes right

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

4. What does Hobbes describe as an external sign of God's special workings on their hearts so that afterwards they teach the Word of God?
(a) worship
(b) the Holy spirit
(c) conversion
(d) the Rapture

5. When a multitude becomes one group, what must they select?
(a) the furniture that is appropriate for a group
(b) a set of rules, regulations, and by-laws
(c) a representative who is trusted by all the group members
(d) an appropriate meeting place large enough to accomodate all

Short Answer Questions

1. How may a commonwealth be formed?

2. Who are the subjects in the Kingdom of God?

3. What does Hobbes say is God's right to establish His laws?

4. What example does Hobbes give as a meaningless combination of words?

5. What happens in an assembly that cannot happen with a monarch?

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