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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. What does Hobbes identify as security against all evil, sickness, and death?
(a) miracles
(b) the joys of eternal life and salvation
(c) wealth and prosperity
(d) public welfare

2. What is needed to be able to judge what is just or unjust?
(a) judges
(b) lawyers
(c) statistics
(d) contracts

3. What is the sovereign's right in legal matters?
(a) the right to confiscate property when two or more subjects cannot get along
(b) the right to deny legal process to anyone he shooces
(c) the right to judge all controversies between his people
(d) the right to make decisions basked on his mood

4. What is Hobbes' position on mothers and their children?
(a) Mothers will abandon their children.
(b) The mother is the natural owner of the children.
(c) The state owns all children.
(d) Mothers have no rights to children.

5. Who is a person who speaks directly to God and is a predictor of the future according to Hobbes?
(a) a prophet
(b) a vizier
(c) a visionary
(d) a soothsayer

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hobbes state about knowing the laws of a commonwealth?

2. What does Hobbes call a dominion acquired by conquest?

3. What is an example of Hobbes' unprovable discourse?

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?

5. What is a counselor's disadvantage in speaking only to one man?

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