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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, violence is a poor means of maintaining which of the following?
(a) Respect.
(b) A government.
(c) Social order.
(d) Revolution.

2. By which of the following terms does the author state that the power of deciding for the whole of the body can only be established?
(a) Convention.
(b) Veiled proceedings.
(c) Proper ordering.
(d) Totality.

3. The author believes that all power comes from which of the following?
(a) God.
(b) Violence.
(c) Human nature.
(d) Force.

4. The author compares authoritarian societies to which of the following social structures?
(a) Friends.
(b) Work.
(c) Military.
(d) Family.

5. The term, inherent in anarchy, refers to which of the following?
(a) Lawlessness.
(b) Self-destruction.
(c) Lack of will.
(d) Ordering of men by power.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author believes that men are not naturally which of the following?

2. According to the author, every human being lives in which of the following?

3. The state is supposed to enact laws that protect personal property from which of the following?

4. Who is Grotius?

5. When men work together in the way that the author suggests, it produces what type of authority?

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