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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 type of book is LEVIATHAN?
(a) A book about comparative religion
(b) A book of political philosophy
(c) A book about large fish
(d) A science fiction book

2. What does Hobbes say ends a discourse?
(a) A person runs out of anything to say.
(b) A person speaks a different language.
(c) A person grows tired of talking and shuts up.
(d) A person learns the answer to a question or he/she gives up.

3. What does Hobbes identify as the two ways one can hold sway over others?
(a) money and gifts
(b) power and control
(c) counsel and command
(d) charisma and intelligence

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

5. Why does Hobbes say that having friends, followers, and servants is the greatest power?
(a) With friends, followers, and servants one does not need to work.
(b) Having these, one does not need anything else.
(c) Having these, one does not need to go to war.
(d) Being liked and respected makes people good managers and motivators.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Hobbes classify a person who speaks for himself?

3. What does Hobbes call the intention to do wrong or harm another?

4. How does Hobbes classify intellectual virtue?

5. In political systems, what are the two avenues of laws?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Hobbes say men will give up some of their freedoms?

2. What are the two ways Hobbes says a commonwealth is created?

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

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

5. In what way does Hobbes warn against errors in logic or speech?

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

7. Why does Hobbes say that people fear other people?

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

9. Describe briefly Hobbes' contract of a commonwealth.

10. In any political situation, what does Hobbes identify as a basic right?

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