Thomas Hobbes - Exam
Thomas Hobbes
  • 1. When was Thomas Hobbes born?
A) 1420
B) 1739
C) 1666
D) 1588
  • 2. What is the title of Thomas Hobbes' most famous work?
A) The Prince
B) Utopia
C) Leviathan
D) Republic
  • 3. Where was Thomas Hobbes born?
A) France
B) Germany
C) Italy
D) England
  • 4. What did Hobbes believe was necessary to maintain social order?
A) Strong Central Authority
B) Anarchism
C) Religious Institutions
D) Individual Autonomy
  • 5. What did Hobbes describe as 'nasty, brutish, and short' in the state of nature?
A) Liberty
B) Happiness
C) Life
D) Justice
  • 6. Which of the following is a key concept in Thomas Hobbes' political theory?
A) Noble Savage
B) Categorical Imperative
C) Social Contract
D) Invisible Hand
  • 7. Which historical event influenced Thomas Hobbes' political views?
A) English Civil War
B) American Revolution
C) French Revolution
D) Glorious Revolution
  • 8. Which philosopher is often considered as a rival of Thomas Hobbes?
A) John Locke
B) Aristotle
C) Immanuel Kant
D) Rene Descartes
  • 9. In which year did Thomas Hobbes publish Leviathan?
A) 1776
B) 1715
C) 1651
D) 1688
  • 10. Where did Thomas Hobbes begin his academic journey?
A) London
B) Westport
C) Oxford
D) Cambridge
  • 11. Which university did Hobbes attend first for his studies?
A) University of Cambridge
B) Magdalen Hall
C) Hertford College
D) University of Oxford
  • 12. What event did Hobbes associate with his premature birth?
A) The English Civil War
B) The Great Fire of London
C) The coming invasion of the Spanish Armada
D) The execution of Charles I
  • 13. Who was Hobbes's employer when he first began his career?
A) William Cavendish, Baron of Hardwick
B) Charles Cavendish
C) Ben Jonson
D) Francis Bacon
  • 14. What was Hobbes's relationship with the Cavendish family?
A) He was their landlord.
B) He was their personal physician.
C) He served as a tutor and secretary to members of the family.
D) He was their financial advisor.
  • 15. What did Hobbes translate from Greek into Latin verse before attending university?
A) Plato's Republic
B) Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War
C) Homer's Iliad
D) Euripides' Medea
  • 16. Which notable figure did Hobbes meet in Venice during his travels?
A) John Wilkinson
B) Fulgenzio Micanzio
C) Francis Bacon
D) Galileo Galilei
  • 17. What type of learning did Hobbes find little attraction to at Oxford?
A) Scholastic learning
B) Mathematics
C) Philosophy
D) Classical literature
  • 18. To whom did Hobbes dedicate his 'Elements of Law'?
A) Francis Bacon
B) William Cavendish, later 1st Duke of Newcastle
C) John Wilkinson
D) Charles I
  • 19. Which historical figure did Hobbes praise as 'the most politic historiographer that ever writ'?
A) Plato
B) Herodotus
C) Thucydides
D) Euripides
  • 20. What was Hobbes's role in relation to Francis Bacon?
A) He worked as his amanuensis, translating several of his Essays into Latin.
B) He was his student.
C) He was his patron.
D) He was his mentor.
  • 21. What event prompted Hobbes to dismiss his employment with the Cavendish family?
A) The death of William Cavendish, Earl of Devonshire, from the plague
B) The publication of Leviathan
C) The start of the English Civil War
D) His dismissal by Ben Jonson
  • 22. What was Hobbes's father's occupation?
A) Scholar
B) University professor
C) Glove manufacturer
D) Vicar of both Charlton and Westport
  • 23. Where did Thomas Hobbes work as a tutor in 1629?
A) Rome
B) Paris
C) Florence
D) London
  • 24. What did Hobbes argue about true revelation and human reason?
A) True revelation is always superior to human reason
B) True revelation can never disagree with human reason
C) Human reason should be ignored in favor of revelation
D) Revelation is irrelevant to human experience
  • 25. What position did Hobbes take up with Charles, Prince of Wales in 1647?
A) Mathematical instructor
B) Political advisor
C) Literary tutor
D) Military strategist
  • 26. What argument for the existence of God did Hobbes provide in The Elements of Law?
A) Moral argument
B) Teleological argument
C) Ontological argument
D) Cosmological argument
  • 27. Which city is associated with Bradford University Press?
A) Oxford
B) Paris
C) London
D) Bradford
  • 28. Who published Hobbes's scientific tracts in 1644?
A) René Descartes
B) Marin Mersenne
C) Sir Gervase Clifton
D) William Cavendish
  • 29. Who authored 'The Mechanisation of Aristotelianism. The Late Aristotelian Setting of Thomas Hobbes' Natural Philosophy'?
A) Douglas M. Jesseph
B) Cees Leijenhorst
C) Frithiof Brandt
D) K. C. Brown
  • 30. Which work was translated into English in 1682 as 'Some Principles and Problems in Geometry'?
A) 'De mundo Examined'
B) 'Rosetum Geometricum'
C) 'Problematica Physica'
D) 'Principia et Problemata'
  • 31. Who did Hobbes translate letters from, while in England?
A) John Wallis
B) Paolo Sarpi
C) Fulgenzio Micanzio
D) Isaac Newton
  • 32. Which work by Hobbes was translated into English as 'A Garden of Geometrical Roses'?
A) 'Principia et Problemata'
B) 'Problematica Physica'
C) 'De mundo Examined'
D) 'Rosetum Geometricum'
  • 33. In what year did Hobbes publish a complete translation of both the Iliad and the Odyssey?
A) 1651
B) 1668
C) 1646
D) 1675
  • 34. Which work by Descartes did Hobbes critique?
A) Meditations on First Philosophy
B) Discourse on Method
C) Principles of Philosophy
D) Rules for the Direction of the Mind
  • 35. How many volumes of the Clarendon Edition have been published out of 27 planned?
A) 10
B) 15
C) 20
D) 5
  • 36. What was the title of Hobbes's work finished in November 1641?
A) The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic
B) Tractatus opticus
C) De Cive
D) Leviathan
  • 37. Which philosophical group in Paris did Hobbes regularly debate with?
A) Groups led by Galileo Galilei
B) Groups held together by Marin Mersenne
C) Groups organized by Descartes
D) Groups centered around William Cavendish
  • 38. Which edition is compiled by William Molesworth?
A) New critical editions of Hobbes's works
B) Clarendon Edition
C) Traduction des œuvres latines de Hobbes
D) Molesworth editions
  • 39. What was the title of Hobbes's short treatise on optics?
A) The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic
B) Leviathan
C) De Cive
D) Tractatus opticus
  • 40. Which work by Thomas Hobbes was published as an English translation titled 'Seven Philosophical Problems' in 1682?
A) Dialogus physicus, sive De natura aeris
B) Principia et Problemata Aliquot Geometrica Antè Desperata, Nunc breviter Explicata & Demonstrata
C) Lux Mathematica. Excussa Collisionibus Johannis Wallisii
D) Problematica Physica
  • 41. Which work by Thomas Hobbes is a Latin autobiography published in 1679?
A) Thomae Hobbessii Malmesburiensis Vita. Authore seipso
B) A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England
C) Examinatio et emendatio mathematicae hodiernae qualis explicatur in libris Johannis Wallisii
D) Decameron Physiologicum
  • 42. What were Thomas Hobbes' last words reportedly?
A) "Life is but a dream"
B) "To be or not to be"
C) "The end of all things"
D) "A great leap in the dark"
  • 43. In what year did the English Civil War begin?
A) 1651
B) 1666
C) 1637
D) 1642
  • 44. What did Hobbes intend his political theory to resemble?
A) A poetic narrative
B) An artistic expression
C) A religious doctrine
D) A quasi-geometrical system
  • 45. In which year was Hobbes's work 'De Cive' initially circulated privately?
A) 1651
B) 1644
C) 1637
D) 1641
  • 46. Which king's actions influenced Hobbes' views on sovereignty?
A) Charles I
B) Henry VIII
C) James I
D) Edward VI
  • 47. In what year did Thomas Hobbes suffer from a bladder disorder?
A) 1667
B) 1679
C) 1685
D) 1690
  • 48. Who authored 'Squaring the Circle. The War Between Hobbes and Wallis'?
A) K. C. Brown
B) Douglas M. Jesseph
C) Cees Leijenhorst
D) Frithiof Brandt
  • 49. What year did Hobbes complete Leviathan?
A) 1675
B) 1666
C) 1648
D) 1650
  • 50. Which publisher released 'De Corpore, Part I. Computatio Sive Logica' in 1981?
A) Bradford University Press
B) Abaris Books
C) Clarendon Press
D) Vrin
  • 51. What did Hobbes argue about incorporeal substances?
A) They are illusions
B) They exist only in the mind
C) They are divine
D) There are no incorporeal substances
  • 52. In which year was Thomas Hobbes' work 'A Discourse of Tacitus', along with other discourses, published?
A) 1637
B) 1620
C) 1651
D) 1642
  • 53. Which work by Thomas Hobbes was requested to remain unpublished by the King?
A) 'A Garden of Geometrical Roses'
B) 'An Historical Narration concerning Heresie, And the Punishment thereof'
C) 'Seven Philosophical Problems'
D) 'Behemoth, or The Long Parliament'
  • 54. What was Hobbes's final work published in Latin verse?
A) A political manifesto
B) A translation of the Odyssey
C) A treatise on geometry
D) An autobiography
  • 55. Which work by Hobbes was translated into English as 'Seven Philosophical Problems'?
A) 'Rosetum Geometricum'
B) 'Principia et Problemata'
C) 'Problematica Physica'
D) 'De mundo Examined'
  • 56. What philosophical doctrine is Hobbes associated with in his response to Bramhall?
A) Existentialism.
B) Determinism.
C) Free will.
D) Utilitarianism.
  • 57. According to Hobbes, what does scripture never say about spirits?
A) That they are corporeal
B) That they are incorporeal
C) That they have dimensions
D) That they exist
  • 58. Who edited 'Hobbes Studies' published in 1965?
A) Cees Leijenhorst
B) Douglas M. Jesseph
C) K. C. Brown
D) Frithiof Brandt
  • 59. Which work was published in 1688?
A) 'Historia Ecclesiastica Carmine Elegiaco Concinnata'
B) 'An Historical Narration concerning Heresie, And the Punishment thereof'
C) 'Seven Philosophical Problems'
D) 'A Garden of Geometrical Roses'
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