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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. What is the term he uses for reasoning with another person?
(a) Stygmatizing
(b) Signifying
(c) disconcerting
(d) Arguing

2. What are examples of Hobbes' involuntary motions?
(a) planning, acting, and rejoicing
(b) writing, feeling, and sleeping
(c) breathing, blood flow, and other bodily functions
(d) thinking, eating, and reading

3. How does Hobbes define a pact or covenant?
(a) when something is sold or traded
(b) when money changes hands
(c) when any promise is made
(d) when something is transferred or traded for future payment

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

5. Why does Hobbes say that virtue is comparative?
(a) If virtue is equal then there is no evil.
(b) If all things were equal in all men, nothing would be prized.
(c) If all things were equal, this would be heaven.
(d) If there are no comparisons there are no problems.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Hobbes say ends a discourse?

3. How does Hobbes describe his compound imagination?

4. How does Hobbes identify political systems?

5. What, left uncontrolled, does Hobbes say can lead to misery and unhappiness?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Hobbes' view of money?

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

3. How does Hobbes identify skepticism in regards to belief?

4. How does Hobbes say competition comes into human relations?

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

6. How does Hobbes define justice?

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

8. How does Hobbes differentiate between command and counsel?

9. Describe briefly Hobbes' contract of a commonwealth.

10. What does Hobbes say about having an aversion to something people know nothing about?

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