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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4 Chapter 45.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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

3. For what is it required to pay a certain price God is willing to accept?
(a) unlimited abundance
(b) redemption
(c) peaceful life
(d) sovereignty

4. What does Hobbes identify as a "confederacy of deceivers" who go around poisoning the minds of other people and extinguishing their faith in nature, the gospel, and God?
(a) the house of wax
(b) the Kingdom of Darkness
(c) the life after death
(d) the time before fire

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second right of the sovereign?

2. To what does Hobbes compare the dissolution of a commonwealth?

3. What does Hobbes say a person is doing when he stops defending himself?

4. What does Hobbes say only God knows?

5. In political systems, what are the two avenues of laws?

(see the answer key)

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