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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 mean by anything spoken by God and those concerning Him and his government?
(a) the Prophets
(b) the Word of God
(c) the Golden Rule
(d) the Ten Commandments

2. 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

3. In discussing a Christian Commonwealth, what does Hobbes have to say about Holy Scriptures?
(a) They come from the sovereign.
(b) They were written on tablets of stone.
(c) They are not good for making a commonwealth.
(d) They were written by different writers.

4. How may a commonwealth be formed?
(a) the first is by experience and the second is by heredity
(b) the first is by election and the second is by popularity
(c) the first is by natural force or acquisition and the second is by mutual agreement.
(d) the first is by inheritance and the second is by accident

5. What is the one exception to a defense of not knowing the law?
(a) ignorance may be applied if everyone has forgotten it
(b) ignorance may apply to someone is if he is a foreigner
(c) ignorance may be applied if the law is obscure
(d) ignorance may be applied if a person cannot read

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hobbes say the goal of the Bible is?

2. When many people first get together, what are they called?

3. Why must a sovereign publish and instruct people about his laws?

4. What does Hobbes say about controlling thoughts?

5. How does Hobbes suggest that people reason?

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