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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 needs to be given to the shy people?
(a) an economic bailout package
(b) encouragement to get out and attain what the others have
(c) laws to prevent their abuse
(d) large amounts of financial aid

2. What two systems does Hobbes define within a commonwealth?
(a) private and political
(b) democrat and republican
(c) tyranny and ordinary
(d) open and closed

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

4. How does Hobbes classify discourse that cannot be proven?
(a) scientific
(b) attitudes
(c) theorems
(d) opinion

5. How does Hobbes define a monarchy?
(a) In a monarchy, the assembly holds power.
(b) In a monarchy, only one man has power.
(c) In a monarchy, only the nobles hold power.
(d) In a monarchy, all the people hold power.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hobbes say a commonwealth is taken by acquisition?

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

3. Where can a monarch go for advice?

4. Why does Hobbes say it is natural for the mother to have dominion over children?

5. What does Hobbes identify as the two ways one can hold sway over others?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Briefly, what does Hobbes have to say about lawful and unlawful systems?

4. How does Hobbes define the origins of religion?

5. How does Hobbes differentiate between command and counsel?

6. What are the three sovereignties Hobbes defines?

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

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

9. What does Hobbes believe about judicial interpretation?

10. Relate Hobbes' examples of a contract or a covenant.

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