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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Hobbes insist is of the greatest value to a commonwealth?
(a) the minister
(b) the teacher
(c) the banker
(d) the sovreign

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

3. What does Hobbes call a dominion acquired by conquest?
(a) Natural
(b) Despotical
(c) Impoversihed
(d) Democratic

4. What does Hobbes say about controlling thoughts?
(a) Thought should not be controlled.
(b) The commonwealth controls thoughts.
(c) People learn to do it at an early age.
(d) People cannot always do it.

5. How does Hobbes suggest that people reason?
(a) By adding or subtracting two thoughts
(b) By first getting burned
(c) By mathematical equations
(d) By counting on fingers and toes

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hobbes identify political systems?

2. What does Hobbes define as moral virtues?

3. What does Hobbes identify as three basic human fears?

4. How must a counselor speak?

5. How does Hobbes see the commonwealth?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hobbes differentiate between command and counsel?

2. How does Hobbes describe a despotic dominion?

3. How does Hobbes say a person can increase intellectual virtue?

4. How does Hobbes illustrate what he calls compound imagination?

5. What does Hobbes say about justice, gratitude, modesty, equity, and mercy?

6. How does Hobbes extol the idea of the commonwealth?

7. Give Hobbes' idea about how much a country needs individuals.

8. What does Hobbes say about rights in the natural world?

9. Why does Hobbes insist that the people cannot protest against a sovereign?

10. How does Hobbes define the origins of religion?

(see the answer keys)

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