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WorksheetsHobbes and Locke - Why Government?
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
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Class
Date
1.
What is the "State of Nature" according to Hobbes?
a)
Agreement between people and their government
b)
Everyone had a right to everything
c)
People are born with a tabula rasa - blank slate
d)
Life, Liberty and Property
2.
What are Natural Rights?
a)
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
b)
Life, liberty and property
c)
Tabula rasa - born with a mind like a blank slate
d)
Protection from the Government
3.
What is the Leviathan?
a)
The social contract between the government and people
b)
Monarchy with little power
c)
The monster
d)
A way of living before governments
4.
Who believes humans are born poor, nasty, brutish and short?
a)
John Locke
b)
Thomas Hobbes
c)
The English Monarchy
d)
Sir William Jones
5.
A social contract according to Locke - states that people give up ___________ freedoms, in exchange for protection.
a)
all
b)
some
c)
most
d)
two
6.
According to Hobbes, social is a two way street.
a)
True
b)
False
7.
Which person believed in a strong central authority was the only way to avoid the evil of war.
a)
Hobbes
b)
Locke
8.
Tabula rasa means ______.
a)
war
b)
peace
c)
contract
d)
blank slate
9.
Who believed that a social contract between a government should be a two way street.
a)
Hobbes
b)
Locke
10.
How does a baby "fill" their tabula rasa or blank slate?
a)
using the 5 senses and experience
b)
going to war and winning
c)
only using their 5 senses
d)
moving from place to place in hopes of learning
11.
If the government fails to deliver according to Locke the people can _______.
a)
People can not question the government
b)
People can do what they want
c)
People can revolt
d)
People have no say
12.
Hobbes believed in the 3 branches of government.
a)
True
b)
False
13.
Which answer does not belong - During the State of Nature, people did not ________.
a)
make inventions
b)
take other people things
c)
make tools
d)
grow crops
14.
Hobbes - Social Contract - people agreed to hand over power in exchange for protection, they lost
a)
their house
b)
their dog
c)
the ability to even question the government
d)
defend themselves
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