Thomas Hobbes - Quiz
Thomas Hobbes
  • 1. When was Thomas Hobbes born?
A) 1420
B) 1666
C) 1588
D) 1739
  • 2. What is the title of Thomas Hobbes' most famous work?
A) Republic
B) Utopia
C) Leviathan
D) The Prince
  • 3. Where was Thomas Hobbes born?
A) Italy
B) Germany
C) England
D) France
  • 4. What did Hobbes believe was necessary to maintain social order?
A) Strong Central Authority
B) Individual Autonomy
C) Anarchism
D) Religious Institutions
  • 5. What did Hobbes describe as 'nasty, brutish, and short' in the state of nature?
A) Life
B) Justice
C) Happiness
D) Liberty
  • 6. Which of the following is a key concept in Thomas Hobbes' political theory?
A) Social Contract
B) Invisible Hand
C) Noble Savage
D) Categorical Imperative
  • 7. Which historical event influenced Thomas Hobbes' political views?
A) American Revolution
B) English Civil War
C) French Revolution
D) Glorious Revolution
  • 8. Which philosopher is often considered as a rival of Thomas Hobbes?
A) Aristotle
B) Rene Descartes
C) Immanuel Kant
D) John Locke
  • 9. In which year did Thomas Hobbes publish Leviathan?
A) 1688
B) 1715
C) 1776
D) 1651
  • 10. Where did Thomas Hobbes begin his academic journey?
A) Oxford
B) London
C) Cambridge
D) Westport
  • 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 execution of Charles I
C) The coming invasion of the Spanish Armada
D) The Great Fire of London
  • 13. Who was Hobbes's employer when he first began his career?
A) Ben Jonson
B) Francis Bacon
C) William Cavendish, Baron of Hardwick
D) Charles Cavendish
  • 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) Homer's Iliad
C) Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War
D) Euripides' Medea
  • 16. Which notable figure did Hobbes meet in Venice during his travels?
A) John Wilkinson
B) Galileo Galilei
C) Francis Bacon
D) Fulgenzio Micanzio
  • 17. What type of learning did Hobbes find little attraction to at Oxford?
A) Scholastic learning
B) Philosophy
C) Classical literature
D) Mathematics
  • 18. To whom did Hobbes dedicate his 'Elements of Law'?
A) Charles I
B) Francis Bacon
C) William Cavendish, later 1st Duke of Newcastle
D) John Wilkinson
  • 19. Which historical figure did Hobbes praise as 'the most politic historiographer that ever writ'?
A) Herodotus
B) Euripides
C) Plato
D) Thucydides
  • 20. What was Hobbes's role in relation to Francis Bacon?
A) He was his patron.
B) He was his mentor.
C) He was his student.
D) He worked as his amanuensis, translating several of his Essays into Latin.
  • 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 start of the English Civil War
C) His dismissal by Ben Jonson
D) The publication of Leviathan
  • 22. What was Hobbes's father's occupation?
A) Vicar of both Charlton and Westport
B) Glove manufacturer
C) University professor
D) Scholar
  • 23. Where did Thomas Hobbes work as a tutor in 1629?
A) London
B) Rome
C) Paris
D) Florence
  • 24. What did Hobbes argue about true revelation and human reason?
A) True revelation is always superior to human reason
B) Revelation is irrelevant to human experience
C) Human reason should be ignored in favor of revelation
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) Literary tutor
C) Military strategist
D) Political advisor
  • 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) Paris
B) Bradford
C) London
D) Oxford
  • 28. Who published Hobbes's scientific tracts in 1644?
A) Marin Mersenne
B) René Descartes
C) William Cavendish
D) Sir Gervase Clifton
  • 29. Who authored 'The Mechanisation of Aristotelianism. The Late Aristotelian Setting of Thomas Hobbes' Natural Philosophy'?
A) Cees Leijenhorst
B) Frithiof Brandt
C) K. C. Brown
D) Douglas M. Jesseph
  • 30. Which work was translated into English in 1682 as 'Some Principles and Problems in Geometry'?
A) 'De mundo Examined'
B) 'Problematica Physica'
C) 'Rosetum Geometricum'
D) 'Principia et Problemata'
  • 31. Who did Hobbes translate letters from, while in England?
A) Isaac Newton
B) Paolo Sarpi
C) John Wallis
D) Fulgenzio Micanzio
  • 32. Which work by Hobbes was translated into English as 'A Garden of Geometrical Roses'?
A) 'Principia et Problemata'
B) 'De mundo Examined'
C) 'Problematica Physica'
D) 'Rosetum Geometricum'
  • 33. In what year did Hobbes publish a complete translation of both the Iliad and the Odyssey?
A) 1668
B) 1651
C) 1646
D) 1675
  • 34. Which work by Descartes did Hobbes critique?
A) Meditations on First Philosophy
B) Discourse on Method
C) Rules for the Direction of the Mind
D) Principles of Philosophy
  • 35. How many volumes of the Clarendon Edition have been published out of 27 planned?
A) 15
B) 20
C) 10
D) 5
  • 36. What was the title of Hobbes's work finished in November 1641?
A) Leviathan
B) De Cive
C) The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic
D) Tractatus opticus
  • 37. Which philosophical group in Paris did Hobbes regularly debate with?
A) Groups centered around William Cavendish
B) Groups held together by Marin Mersenne
C) Groups organized by Descartes
D) Groups led by Galileo Galilei
  • 38. Which edition is compiled by William Molesworth?
A) Molesworth editions
B) Clarendon Edition
C) Traduction des œuvres latines de Hobbes
D) New critical editions of Hobbes's works
  • 39. What was the title of Hobbes's short treatise on optics?
A) De Cive
B) Leviathan
C) Tractatus opticus
D) The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic
  • 40. Which work by Thomas Hobbes was published as an English translation titled 'Seven Philosophical Problems' in 1682?
A) Problematica Physica
B) Principia et Problemata Aliquot Geometrica Antè Desperata, Nunc breviter Explicata & Demonstrata
C) Dialogus physicus, sive De natura aeris
D) Lux Mathematica. Excussa Collisionibus Johannis Wallisii
  • 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) "Life is but a dream"
C) "The end of all things"
D) "A great leap in the dark"
  • 43. In what year did the English Civil War begin?
A) 1666
B) 1651
C) 1637
D) 1642
  • 44. What did Hobbes intend his political theory to resemble?
A) An artistic expression
B) A poetic narrative
C) A quasi-geometrical system
D) A religious doctrine
  • 45. In which year was Hobbes's work 'De Cive' initially circulated privately?
A) 1637
B) 1641
C) 1651
D) 1644
  • 46. Which king's actions influenced Hobbes' views on sovereignty?
A) James I
B) Henry VIII
C) Charles I
D) Edward VI
  • 47. In what year did Thomas Hobbes suffer from a bladder disorder?
A) 1690
B) 1667
C) 1679
D) 1685
  • 48. Who authored 'Squaring the Circle. The War Between Hobbes and Wallis'?
A) K. C. Brown
B) Cees Leijenhorst
C) Frithiof Brandt
D) Douglas M. Jesseph
  • 49. What year did Hobbes complete Leviathan?
A) 1650
B) 1675
C) 1666
D) 1648
  • 50. Which publisher released 'De Corpore, Part I. Computatio Sive Logica' in 1981?
A) Bradford University Press
B) Vrin
C) Abaris Books
D) Clarendon Press
  • 51. What did Hobbes argue about incorporeal substances?
A) There are no incorporeal substances
B) They are divine
C) They exist only in the mind
D) They are illusions
  • 52. In which year was Thomas Hobbes' work 'A Discourse of Tacitus', along with other discourses, published?
A) 1620
B) 1651
C) 1642
D) 1637
  • 53. Which work by Thomas Hobbes was requested to remain unpublished by the King?
A) 'A Garden of Geometrical Roses'
B) 'Behemoth, or The Long Parliament'
C) 'Seven Philosophical Problems'
D) 'An Historical Narration concerning Heresie, And the Punishment thereof'
  • 54. What was Hobbes's final work published in Latin verse?
A) A treatise on geometry
B) A political manifesto
C) An autobiography
D) A translation of the Odyssey
  • 55. Which work by Hobbes was translated into English as 'Seven Philosophical Problems'?
A) 'Problematica Physica'
B) 'Principia et Problemata'
C) 'Rosetum Geometricum'
D) 'De mundo Examined'
  • 56. What philosophical doctrine is Hobbes associated with in his response to Bramhall?
A) Determinism.
B) Existentialism.
C) Utilitarianism.
D) Free will.
  • 57. According to Hobbes, what does scripture never say about spirits?
A) That they exist
B) That they are corporeal
C) That they have dimensions
D) That they are incorporeal
  • 58. Who edited 'Hobbes Studies' published in 1965?
A) K. C. Brown
B) Cees Leijenhorst
C) Douglas M. Jesseph
D) Frithiof Brandt
  • 59. Which work was published in 1688?
A) 'A Garden of Geometrical Roses'
B) 'Seven Philosophical Problems'
C) 'An Historical Narration concerning Heresie, And the Punishment thereof'
D) 'Historia Ecclesiastica Carmine Elegiaco Concinnata'
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