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Thomas Hobbes - Exam
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  • 1. When was Thomas Hobbes born?
A) 1588
B) 1420
C) 1739
D) 1666
  • 2. What is the title of Thomas Hobbes' most famous work?
A) Leviathan
B) Republic
C) The Prince
D) Utopia
  • 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) Religious Institutions
D) Individual Autonomy
  • 5. What did Hobbes describe as 'nasty, brutish, and short' in the state of nature?
A) Liberty
B) Justice
C) Happiness
D) Life
  • 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) 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) Rene Descartes
B) John Locke
C) Immanuel Kant
D) Aristotle
  • 9. In which year did Thomas Hobbes publish Leviathan?
A) 1651
B) 1688
C) 1776
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) Hertford College
D) Magdalen Hall
  • 12. What event did Hobbes associate with his premature birth?
A) The coming invasion of the Spanish Armada
B) The execution of Charles I
C) The Great Fire of London
D) The English Civil War
  • 13. Who was Hobbes's employer when he first began his career?
A) Charles Cavendish
B) Ben Jonson
C) Francis Bacon
D) William Cavendish, Baron of Hardwick
  • 14. What was Hobbes's relationship with the Cavendish family?
A) He was their personal physician.
B) He was their financial advisor.
C) He served as a tutor and secretary to members of the family.
D) He was their landlord.
  • 15. What did Hobbes translate from Greek into Latin verse before attending university?
A) Homer's Iliad
B) Plato's Republic
C) Euripides' Medea
D) Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War
  • 16. Which notable figure did Hobbes meet in Venice during his travels?
A) Galileo Galilei
B) John Wilkinson
C) Fulgenzio Micanzio
D) Francis Bacon
  • 17. What type of learning did Hobbes find little attraction to at Oxford?
A) Mathematics
B) Classical literature
C) Philosophy
D) Scholastic learning
  • 18. To whom did Hobbes dedicate his 'Elements of Law'?
A) Charles I
B) William Cavendish, later 1st Duke of Newcastle
C) John Wilkinson
D) Francis Bacon
  • 19. Which historical figure did Hobbes praise as 'the most politic historiographer that ever writ'?
A) Plato
B) Thucydides
C) Euripides
D) Herodotus
  • 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 mentor.
C) He was his student.
D) He was his patron.
  • 21. What event prompted Hobbes to dismiss his employment with the Cavendish family?
A) The start of the English Civil War
B) The publication of Leviathan
C) His dismissal by Ben Jonson
D) The death of William Cavendish, Earl of Devonshire, from the plague
  • 22. What was Hobbes's father's occupation?
A) University professor
B) Vicar of both Charlton and Westport
C) Glove manufacturer
D) Scholar
  • 23. Where did Thomas Hobbes work as a tutor in 1629?
A) London
B) Paris
C) Florence
D) Rome
  • 24. What did Hobbes argue about true revelation and human reason?
A) Revelation is irrelevant to human experience
B) True revelation can never disagree with human reason
C) True revelation is always superior to human reason
D) Human reason should be ignored in favor of revelation
  • 25. What position did Hobbes take up with Charles, Prince of Wales in 1647?
A) Political advisor
B) Mathematical instructor
C) Military strategist
D) Literary tutor
  • 26. What argument for the existence of God did Hobbes provide in The Elements of Law?
A) Cosmological argument
B) Teleological argument
C) Ontological argument
D) Moral argument
  • 27. Which city is associated with Bradford University Press?
A) Bradford
B) Oxford
C) Paris
D) London
  • 28. Who published Hobbes's scientific tracts in 1644?
A) William Cavendish
B) René Descartes
C) Marin Mersenne
D) Sir Gervase Clifton
  • 29. Who authored 'The Mechanisation of Aristotelianism. The Late Aristotelian Setting of Thomas Hobbes' Natural Philosophy'?
A) Cees Leijenhorst
B) K. C. Brown
C) Douglas M. Jesseph
D) Frithiof Brandt
  • 30. Which work was translated into English in 1682 as 'Some Principles and Problems in Geometry'?
A) 'Rosetum Geometricum'
B) 'Principia et Problemata'
C) 'De mundo Examined'
D) 'Problematica Physica'
  • 31. Who did Hobbes translate letters from, while in England?
A) John Wallis
B) Fulgenzio Micanzio
C) Paolo Sarpi
D) Isaac Newton
  • 32. Which work by Hobbes was translated into English as 'A Garden of Geometrical Roses'?
A) 'De mundo Examined'
B) 'Rosetum Geometricum'
C) 'Problematica Physica'
D) 'Principia et Problemata'
  • 33. In what year did Hobbes publish a complete translation of both the Iliad and the Odyssey?
A) 1646
B) 1668
C) 1675
D) 1651
  • 34. Which work by Descartes did Hobbes critique?
A) Discourse on Method
B) Principles of Philosophy
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) 10
B) 20
C) 15
D) 5
  • 36. What was the title of Hobbes's work finished in November 1641?
A) Leviathan
B) The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic
C) De Cive
D) Tractatus opticus
  • 37. Which philosophical group in Paris did Hobbes regularly debate with?
A) Groups held together by Marin Mersenne
B) Groups centered around William Cavendish
C) Groups led by Galileo Galilei
D) Groups organized by Descartes
  • 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) De Cive
B) Tractatus opticus
C) The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic
D) Leviathan
  • 40. Which work by Thomas Hobbes was published as an English translation titled 'Seven Philosophical Problems' in 1682?
A) Lux Mathematica. Excussa Collisionibus Johannis Wallisii
B) Dialogus physicus, sive De natura aeris
C) Problematica Physica
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) Thomae Hobbessii Malmesburiensis Vita. Authore seipso
B) Examinatio et emendatio mathematicae hodiernae qualis explicatur in libris Johannis Wallisii
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) "A great leap in the dark"
B) "To be or not to be"
C) "The end of all things"
D) "Life is but a dream"
  • 43. In what year did the English Civil War begin?
A) 1642
B) 1651
C) 1637
D) 1666
  • 44. What did Hobbes intend his political theory to resemble?
A) A poetic narrative
B) A religious doctrine
C) A quasi-geometrical system
D) An artistic expression
  • 45. In which year was Hobbes's work 'De Cive' initially circulated privately?
A) 1651
B) 1644
C) 1641
D) 1637
  • 46. Which king's actions influenced Hobbes' views on sovereignty?
A) Edward VI
B) Charles I
C) James I
D) Henry VIII
  • 47. In what year did Thomas Hobbes suffer from a bladder disorder?
A) 1667
B) 1685
C) 1679
D) 1690
  • 48. Who authored 'Squaring the Circle. The War Between Hobbes and Wallis'?
A) Douglas M. Jesseph
B) K. C. Brown
C) Frithiof Brandt
D) Cees Leijenhorst
  • 49. What year did Hobbes complete Leviathan?
A) 1666
B) 1675
C) 1650
D) 1648
  • 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) There are no incorporeal substances
C) They are illusions
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) 'Behemoth, or The Long Parliament'
B) 'Seven Philosophical Problems'
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) An autobiography
C) A political manifesto
D) A translation of the Odyssey
  • 55. Which work by Hobbes was translated into English as 'Seven Philosophical Problems'?
A) 'Principia et Problemata'
B) 'Problematica Physica'
C) 'Rosetum Geometricum'
D) 'De mundo Examined'
  • 56. What philosophical doctrine is Hobbes associated with in his response to Bramhall?
A) Existentialism.
B) Free will.
C) Determinism.
D) Utilitarianism.
  • 57. According to Hobbes, what does scripture never say about spirits?
A) That they are incorporeal
B) That they are corporeal
C) That they have dimensions
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) 'A Garden of Geometrical Roses'
B) 'Historia Ecclesiastica Carmine Elegiaco Concinnata'
C) 'Seven Philosophical Problems'
D) 'An Historical Narration concerning Heresie, And the Punishment thereof'
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