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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 does Hobbes say leads to competition among people?
(a) religion
(b) restless desire
(c) different interests
(d) different abilities

2. Why must people create a covenant or agreement to give power to one person, or small group of people?
(a) Some think too highly of themselves or blow things out of proportion.
(b) Too many cooks spoil the broth.
(c) It is not possible to assemble all the people all the time.
(d) That is the natural way of doing things.

3. What is a fundamental interest on the part of a counselor?
(a) for the good of those that he counsels
(b) to deceive the people
(c) to hide his motives
(d) to get his own way

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

5. What does Hobbes say people are either born with or develop?
(a) appetites and aversions
(b) hair and fingernails
(c) personalities and names
(d) fingers and toes

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Hobbes insist is of the greatest value to a commonwealth?

3. How does Hobbes see the commonwealth?

4. How can it be said that each man in a group has a voice?

5. How may a commonwealth be formed?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe briefly Hobbes' contract of a commonwealth.

3. How does Hobbes define the origins of religion?

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

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

6. How does Hobbes describe a despotic dominion?

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

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

9. What is Hobbes' definition of author?

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

(see the answer keys)

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