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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 abilities
(d) different interests

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

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

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

5. In political systems, what are the two avenues of laws?
(a) One is their own written laws, the other is laws of the sovereign.
(b) One is by traditions, and the second is by innovation.
(c) One is by a constitution and the other is by police power.
(d) One is by revolution, and the other is by civil disobedience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hobbes say a person is doing when he stops defending himself?

2. What do counsels for the aristocracy generally do?

3. What does Hobbes say people are either born with or develop?

4. What does Hobbes think of using metaphors?

5. What is an example of Hobbes' unprovable discourse?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Hobbes say that a group may be classified as an author?

3. What is Hobbes' definition of author?

4. How does Hobbes describe a despotic dominion?

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

6. What is Hobbes' view of money?

7. What are the three sovereignties Hobbes defines?

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

9. What does Hobbes believe about judicial interpretation?

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

(see the answer keys)

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