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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 is the sovereign power, whether it is an individual or an assembly?
(a) a king and his court
(b) the courts
(c) the representative of the commonwealth
(d) the senate

2. What does Hobbes think of using metaphors?
(a) They cost too much.
(b) They are never understood.
(c) They are useful.
(d) They are improper.

3. Where does the Pope have a right to command according to Hobbes?
(a) in his own territories where he is the sovereign
(b) all over the world
(c) when the sovereign abdicates
(d) on the throne in the Vatican

4. Who does Hobbes say can never be excommunicated?
(a) a judge
(b) a sovereign
(c) a woman
(d) an ecclesiastical

5. What is an angel?
(a) a messenger of God
(b) a winged horse
(c) an hallucination
(d) a dragon

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hobbes define a pact or covenant?

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

3. How does Hobbes describe his compound imagination?

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

5. How does Hobbes identify political systems?

(see the answer key)

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