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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the term he uses for reasoning with another person?

4. How does Hobbes suggest that people reason?

5. How does Hobbes define liberty?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Hobbes' definition of author?

2. Describe briefly Hobbes' contract of a commonwealth.

3. What is Hobbes' view of money?

4. How does Hobbes differentiate between command and counsel?

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

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

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

8. What does Hobbes believe about judicial interpretation?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a paper on the effectiveness of punishments to control a commonwealth. How has that been carried to unreasonable extreme by such regimes as Saddam Hussein in Iraq? What, in your opinion, are the most effective punishments?

Essay Topic 2

Write a paper on imagination. Hobbes discredits most imagination as foolishness like coupling the concept of a man and a horse to come up with the idea of a centaur. Take the opposite position and write about how imagination is good and what it has given to the world.

Essay Topic 3

Obliquely in the book, Hobbes seems to be defending the English monarchy. Write a paper pointing out how the religious part of the book might also have been a defense of the Church of England. Describing some of the facts about the origins of the Church of England, how do the part of the book attacking the Catholic church fit into that picture?

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