Quiz: Leviathan

15 questions drawn at random. Score 80% for a silver medal.

1. 1. To what does Hobbes compare war, to show that it is not only actual fighting?

   A fever that comes and goes A game of chess, in which every move threatens the next Foul weather, an inclination to rain over many days A storm at sea that wrecks a ship
2. 2. What else does Hobbes call the commonwealth, “to speake more reverently”?

   That Mortall God The Ship of State The Body of Christ The Common Treasury
3. 3. According to Hobbes, who determines the value or worth of a man?

   The law of nature, equally for all God, according to his merits The man himself, by his own estimate Others, as buyers of the use of his power
4. 4. Applying the test of “cui bono”, whom does Hobbes name as the authors of darkness in religion when he discusses the Presbytery?

   The Roman and the Presbyterian clergy The Jesuits and the Laudian Anglican bishops The Independents and the Quakers The Greek Orthodox and the Roman churches
5. 5. On what does Hobbes think taxes should be laid so that they are equal?

   On the riches each person possesses On land and its rents alone On what each consumes On foreign trade and shipping
6. 6. According to Hobbes, what is the aim of punishment?

   Raising revenue for the commonwealth Restoring the balance of divine justice in the world Terror, to make men obey the law Revenge taken on behalf of the injured party
7. 7. Why does Hobbes cite the repentant thief on the cross?

   He was saved professing only Jesus as King He shows that deathbed repentance is never enough He proves that baptism by water is necessary to salvation He was the first man to die a Christian martyr
8. 8. In the Introduction, what does Hobbes say the Leviathan, the commonwealth or state, is?

   A kingdom ordained directly by God A partnership of property-owners An artificial man, made by human art A natural growth of the patriarchal family
9. 9. To what does Hobbes compare those who use the doctrine of separated essences to frighten men from obeying the laws?

   Men scaring birds from the corn with an empty doublet and a stick Nurses frightening children with tales of bugbears and goblins Players on a stage wearing masks The Egyptian conjurers deceiving Pharaoh
10. 10. What does Hobbes conclude from the word LIBERTAS on the turrets of Lucca?

    That the Luccans had resisted the Pope Nothing: a citizen there is no freer than a subject in Constantinople That republics give private men far more liberty than monarchies do That Lucca had abolished all taxes on its citizens and merchants
11. 11. What does Hobbes name as the three principal causes of quarrel in human nature?

    Hunger, lust and anger Competition, diffidence and glory Fear, faction and folly Pride, envy and avarice
12. 12. How does Hobbes define the Kingdom of Darkness?

    As the realm of fallen angels in hell As the state of mere nature, before any commonwealth is instituted As the heathen nations that have never heard the Gospel As a confederacy of deceivers seeking worldly power
13. 13. How does Hobbes define the will?

    The sum of all a man’s desires The last appetite in deliberating A faculty free from all causes A rational appetite
14. 14. What analogy does Hobbes use against Bellarmine’s claim that civil power is subject to spiritual power?

    A tenant owes service to his landlord, as the prince owes it to the Pope A saddler’s art serves riding, but no saddler must obey every rider The body’s members depend on the head, as the civil does on the spiritual A ship’s crew must obey its pilot, since he alone knows the harbour
15. 15. What evidence from Deuteronomy does Hobbes cite to show that Moses did not write the whole Pentateuch?

    It quotes the prophet Isaiah It names kings of Israel who reigned long after Moses died It is written in Greek rather than Hebrew It says no man knows of Moses’s sepulchre “to this day”