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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. How does Hobbes classify the person or group of people who have someone speak for them?
(a) As helpless
(b) As uneducated
(c) As dummies
(d) As actors

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

3. Why does Hobbes say the multitude cannot protest against the sovereign?
(a) They will be beheaded.
(b) They voluntarily entered into the covenant.
(c) They have no voice.
(d) They will destroy the commonwealth.

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

5. What is impunity?
(a) exemption from the law
(b) persecution by the law
(c) inaccurate knowledge of the law
(d) punishment by the law

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term he uses for reasoning with another person?

2. What does Hobbes say leads to competition among people?

3. What does Hobbes say is needed to protect people from danger?

4. What is Hobbes' idea about self-protection in natural law?

5. Why do God's miracles never go against the sovereign?

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