Thomas Hobbes - Quiz
Thomas Hobbes
  • 1. When was Thomas Hobbes born?
A) 1666
B) 1420
C) 1739
D) 1588
  • 2. What is the title of Thomas Hobbes' most famous work?
A) The Prince
B) Republic
C) Leviathan
D) Utopia
  • 3. Where was Thomas Hobbes born?
A) Germany
B) France
C) England
D) Italy
  • 4. What did Hobbes believe was necessary to maintain social order?
A) Anarchism
B) Religious Institutions
C) Individual Autonomy
D) Strong Central Authority
  • 5. What did Hobbes describe as 'nasty, brutish, and short' in the state of nature?
A) Liberty
B) Life
C) Happiness
D) Justice
  • 6. Which of the following is a key concept in Thomas Hobbes' political theory?
A) Invisible Hand
B) Social Contract
C) Noble Savage
D) Categorical Imperative
  • 7. Which historical event influenced Thomas Hobbes' political views?
A) French Revolution
B) Glorious Revolution
C) English Civil War
D) American Revolution
  • 8. Which philosopher is often considered as a rival of Thomas Hobbes?
A) Rene Descartes
B) Immanuel Kant
C) John Locke
D) Aristotle
  • 9. In which year did Thomas Hobbes publish Leviathan?
A) 1715
B) 1688
C) 1651
D) 1776
  • 10. Where did Thomas Hobbes begin his academic journey?
A) Oxford
B) Cambridge
C) Westport
D) London
  • 11. Which university did Hobbes attend first for his studies?
A) University of Oxford
B) Magdalen Hall
C) Hertford College
D) University of Cambridge
  • 12. What event did Hobbes associate with his premature birth?
A) The coming invasion of the Spanish Armada
B) The English Civil War
C) The execution of Charles I
D) The Great Fire of London
  • 13. Who was Hobbes's employer when he first began his career?
A) Francis Bacon
B) William Cavendish, Baron of Hardwick
C) Ben Jonson
D) Charles Cavendish
  • 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 landlord.
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) Euripides' Medea
B) Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War
C) Homer's Iliad
D) Plato's Republic
  • 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) Philosophy
B) Classical literature
C) Scholastic learning
D) Mathematics
  • 18. To whom did Hobbes dedicate his 'Elements of Law'?
A) William Cavendish, later 1st Duke of Newcastle
B) John Wilkinson
C) Charles I
D) Francis Bacon
  • 19. Which historical figure did Hobbes praise as 'the most politic historiographer that ever writ'?
A) Euripides
B) Herodotus
C) Thucydides
D) Plato
  • 20. What was Hobbes's role in relation to Francis Bacon?
A) He was his mentor.
B) He worked as his amanuensis, translating several of his Essays into Latin.
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 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) Vicar of both Charlton and Westport
B) University professor
C) Glove manufacturer
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) True revelation can never disagree with 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) 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) Teleological argument
B) Ontological argument
C) Cosmological argument
D) Moral argument
  • 27. Which city is associated with Bradford University Press?
A) Bradford
B) London
C) Oxford
D) Paris
  • 28. Who published Hobbes's scientific tracts in 1644?
A) Sir Gervase Clifton
B) René Descartes
C) William Cavendish
D) Marin Mersenne
  • 29. Who authored 'The Mechanisation of Aristotelianism. The Late Aristotelian Setting of Thomas Hobbes' Natural Philosophy'?
A) K. C. Brown
B) Frithiof Brandt
C) Cees Leijenhorst
D) Douglas M. Jesseph
  • 30. Which work was translated into English in 1682 as 'Some Principles and Problems in Geometry'?
A) 'Principia et Problemata'
B) 'Problematica Physica'
C) 'Rosetum Geometricum'
D) 'De mundo Examined'
  • 31. Who did Hobbes translate letters from, while in England?
A) Paolo Sarpi
B) John Wallis
C) Isaac Newton
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) 'Rosetum Geometricum'
D) 'De mundo Examined'
  • 33. In what year did Hobbes publish a complete translation of both the Iliad and the Odyssey?
A) 1651
B) 1675
C) 1646
D) 1668
  • 34. Which work by Descartes did Hobbes critique?
A) Principles of Philosophy
B) Rules for the Direction of the Mind
C) Meditations on First Philosophy
D) Discourse on Method
  • 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) Leviathan
B) The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic
C) Tractatus opticus
D) De Cive
  • 37. Which philosophical group in Paris did Hobbes regularly debate with?
A) Groups organized by Descartes
B) Groups led by Galileo Galilei
C) Groups held together by Marin Mersenne
D) Groups centered around William Cavendish
  • 38. Which edition is compiled by William Molesworth?
A) Molesworth editions
B) Traduction des œuvres latines de Hobbes
C) New critical editions of Hobbes's works
D) Clarendon Edition
  • 39. What was the title of Hobbes's short treatise on optics?
A) Tractatus opticus
B) De Cive
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) Problematica Physica
C) Dialogus physicus, sive De natura aeris
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) A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England
C) Decameron Physiologicum
D) Examinatio et emendatio mathematicae hodiernae qualis explicatur in libris Johannis Wallisii
  • 42. What were Thomas Hobbes' last words reportedly?
A) "A great leap in the dark"
B) "Life is but a dream"
C) "The end of all things"
D) "To be or not to be"
  • 43. In what year did the English Civil War begin?
A) 1651
B) 1642
C) 1666
D) 1637
  • 44. What did Hobbes intend his political theory to resemble?
A) A quasi-geometrical system
B) A religious doctrine
C) An artistic expression
D) A poetic narrative
  • 45. In which year was Hobbes's work 'De Cive' initially circulated privately?
A) 1641
B) 1651
C) 1637
D) 1644
  • 46. Which king's actions influenced Hobbes' views on sovereignty?
A) Edward VI
B) Henry VIII
C) Charles I
D) James I
  • 47. In what year did Thomas Hobbes suffer from a bladder disorder?
A) 1685
B) 1690
C) 1667
D) 1679
  • 48. Who authored 'Squaring the Circle. The War Between Hobbes and Wallis'?
A) Douglas M. Jesseph
B) Cees Leijenhorst
C) Frithiof Brandt
D) K. C. Brown
  • 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) Vrin
B) Bradford University Press
C) Abaris Books
D) Clarendon Press
  • 51. What did Hobbes argue about incorporeal substances?
A) They are illusions
B) There are no incorporeal substances
C) They are divine
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) 1637
B) 1642
C) 1651
D) 1620
  • 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) 'A Garden of Geometrical Roses'
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) An autobiography
C) A treatise on geometry
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) 'De mundo Examined'
D) 'Rosetum Geometricum'
  • 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 are incorporeal
B) That they are corporeal
C) That they exist
D) That they have dimensions
  • 58. Who edited 'Hobbes Studies' published in 1965?
A) Frithiof Brandt
B) K. C. Brown
C) Cees Leijenhorst
D) Douglas M. Jesseph
  • 59. Which work was published in 1688?
A) 'Historia Ecclesiastica Carmine Elegiaco Concinnata'
B) 'Seven Philosophical Problems'
C) 'A Garden of Geometrical Roses'
D) 'An Historical Narration concerning Heresie, And the Punishment thereof'
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