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

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

3. What does Hobbes define as moral virtues?
(a) sharing, educating, explaining, and contributing
(b) conforming, working, learning, and manufacturing
(c) justice, gratitude, modesty, equity, and mercy
(d) fearing, obeying, ordering, and supplanting

4. What does Hobbes call a third law of nature?
(a) security
(b) the inevitability of death
(c) justice
(d) habitation

5. What does Hobbes say is needed to protect people from danger?
(a) civil laws
(b) a choice of weapons
(c) a strong militia
(d) strong churches

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the ways in which, according to Hobbes, people can worship God?

2. Why does Hobbes say that people are always seeking more power, wealth, or popularity?

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

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

5. What does Hobbes mean when he says something must be strange and uncommon so people can believe it is the true work of God?

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