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