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