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Philosopher Quizzes 1 - Thomas Hobbes - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 44 times
- The average score is 9 of 17
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Country of Hobbes' birth | England | 97%
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| Famous college in that country that Hobbes attended | Oxford | 88%
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| Sea monster for which Hobbes' most famous work is named | Leviathan | 81%
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| Conflict beginning in 1642 that caused Hobbes to flee the country | English Civil War | 72%
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| Like many political theorists, Hobbes believed in a social ________ | contract | 69%
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| Lord Protector of Hobbes' home country following that conflict | Oliver Cromwell | 66%
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| City to which Hobbes fled | Paris | 63%
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| Any one of the five words Hobbes used to describe man's life in this state | Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short | 56%
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| The state of man outside of the political community, as Hobbes calls it | Nature/Natural | 50%
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| Name of the historian whose account of the Peloponnesian War Hobbes translated | Thucydides | 50%
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| What Hobbes considered the "summum malum," man's greatest fear | violent death | 38%
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| Hobbes believed in the supremacy of this | The Sovereign | 34%
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| Hobbes begins his theory by describing man as "Matter in ______" | motion | 28%
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| Hobbes' first major original work, "Elements of ___" | Law | 25%
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| Hobbes describes his ideal state as an "Artificial ___" | man | 19%
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| Hobbes strove to apply objective, ________ principles to matters of politics | scientific | 19%
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| Hobbes' primary source of employment prior to venturing into philosophy | tutoring | 13%
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