1.Match the writer with the work: (Name of work)
(1) Leviathan
(2) The Practice of Piety
(3) The Art of English Poesy
(4) The History of the Royal Society (Writer)
(a) George Puttenham
(b) Thomas Spart
(c) Lewis Bayly
(d) Thomas Hobbes
1. (a)-(3), (b)-(4), (c)-(1), (d)-(2)
2. (a)-(3), (b)-(4), (c)-(2), (d)-(1)
3. (a)-(4), (b)-(3), (c)-(2), (d)-(1)
4. (a)-(3), (b)-(2), (c)-(4), (d)-(1)
Answer: 2
2.In Thomas Hobbes’s grand metaphor in Leviathan, a commonwealth is like ………….
(1) a great ship piloted by one man, but managed by the efforts of many.
(2) an artificial man imbued with the strength of many men.
(3) an octopus whose many tentacles represent the competing interests of men.
(4) an ostrich, which thrusts its head in the sand to avoid danger and self examination.
Answer: 2
3.Which according to Thomas Hobbes is the only ‘science’ God has bestowed on mankind, that informs the structure of his monumental work, Leviathan?
1. Astronomy
2. Architecture
3. Occult sciences
4. Geometry
Answer: 4
4.Who among the following cautioned against the dangers of popular liberty ?
(A) Mary Wollstonecraft
(B) Edmund Burke
(C) Thomas Hobbes
(D) John Locke
Answer: C