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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 define as moral virtues?
(a) sharing, educating, explaining, and contributing
(b) conforming, working, learning, and manufacturing
(c) fearing, obeying, ordering, and supplanting
(d) justice, gratitude, modesty, equity, and mercy

2. Why does Hobbes say that virtue is comparative?
(a) If there are no comparisons there are no problems.
(b) If virtue is equal then there is no evil.
(c) If all things were equal in all men, nothing would be prized.
(d) If all things were equal, this would be heaven.

3. Why can passion for power be dangerous?
(a) People can use evil means to get power.
(b) People can be deceived.
(c) People cannot achieve it.
(d) People can be electrocuted.

4. How does Hobbes say a commonwealth is taken by acquisition?
(a) In fear of death, men surrender to the new commonwealth
(b) People ask to join a bigger commonwealth.
(c) Money is exchanged for the new territory.
(d) Adjacent territory is annexed by vote.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What two factors does Hobbes believe control mental discourse?

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

3. What is the sovereign's right in legal matters?

4. What are examples of Hobbes' involuntary motions?

5. What can the commonwealth do to check bad behavior of its citizens?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hobbes describe a despotic dominion?

2. Describe briefly Hobbes' contract of a commonwealth.

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

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

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

6. How does Hobbes differentiate between command and counsel?

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

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

9. What are the three sovereignties Hobbes defines?

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

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