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

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

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

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

5. When many people first get together, what are they called?
(a) A multitude
(b) A gaggle
(c) A hodge podge
(d) A mob

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hobbes call the blood flow of a commonwealth?

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

3. Which two forms of government need not worry about succession?

4. How does Hobbes classify intellectual virtue?

5. What is the first right of a sovereign power?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Hobbes idea of people being created equal?

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

4. What is one advantage Hobbes sees in a monarchy?

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

6. How does Hobbes describe a despotic dominion?

7. What is Hobbes' view of money?

8. Describe briefly Hobbes' contract of a commonwealth.

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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