1.
63. হবসের মতে, আদিম মানুষ চলি সম্পাদন করে (7^TH SLST 2023)

2.
89. 'লেভিয়াথান' লিখেছেন (7^TH SLST 2023)

3. হবসের মতে, অবিচার এর সংজ্ঞা (7^TH SLST 2023)

4. From whom did Hobbes borrow the principle of resolutive composite? (GUJARAT SET 2016 PAPER III)

5. Which thinker among the following impressed Hobbes in order to understand human nature? (JAMMU & KASHMIR SET October 2023)

6. Read the following statements and choose the correct code: (TELANGANA SET 2022)

1. Hobbes doubted whether men are naturally sociable and suggested that their nature is such that only a very drastic version of social contract will ever get them into the social condition.

2. Locke thought that men are naturally sociable, though he hedged on the question of exactly how sociable they are.

3. Rousseau made the social contract a way of explaining not how societies can be made stable but how societies can be made just.

Codes:

7. Men living without law in State of Nature, would be men not trusting each other is the argument of one of the following: (TELANGANA SET 2023)

8. Hobbes quoted Cicero saying, “Take away the Civil Law and no man knows what is his own and what is another man’s”, to describe the (Bihar PGT 2023)

9. By propounding the theory of social contract, Hobbes was trying to restore monarchy in England for who among the following kings? (Bihar PGT 2023)

10. With Hobbes, rational individuals would enter into an agrement or 'social contract', to (SLET 17th March 2024)

11. To whom absolute Monarchy was the best form of Government on Earth. (SLET 17th March 2024)

12. "The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them". Who said this? (GUJARAT SET 2021 DEC)

13. Which of the following is true of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes? (GUJARAT SET 2022)

Select the correct answer from the codes given below :

a. Hobbes was influenced by new developments in physical sciences, and especially by Galileo.

b. Fear and self-interest are the two fundamental human motivations.

c. The principal cause of conflict is external to the nature of man,

d. The right to self-preservation is an absolute right of the individual.

Codes:

14. For Hobbes the sovereignty is : (Madhya Pradesh SET 2022)

15. Hobbes' social contract is based on (Presidency University Masters Entrance Questions 2017)

16. 'State of nature' is a component of the political theory of (CUET PG 2021)

17. Who among the following scholars presented Hobbes' 'State of Nature' as a society of self-interested competitive individualism? (CUET PG 2023)

18. Thomas Hobbes defined sovereignty as (CUET PG 2023)

19. 'Leviathan' was written by (CUET PG 2022)

20. Who amongst the following stated that life is "a perpetual and restless desire for power after power, that ceaseth only in death"? (NET December 2020 & June 2021 Paper-II)

21. Which of the following statements is true of the Social Contract of Hobbes? (DU MA 2018)

22. Who among the following can be justifiably called the first modern propounder of the idea of negative liberty? (DU MA 2018)

23. Who among the following first modernized the tradition of Natural Law? (DU MA 2018)

24. Match List I with List II (DU MA 2021)

25. Which of the following statements is not true of Hobbes? (DU MA 2019)

26. Who defines ‘freedom as the private pursuit of the individual’? (JNU MA 2020)

27. What sort of government did Hobbes support in Leviathan? (JNU MA 2019)

28. Match the following thinkers and idea (University of Hyderabad MA 2021)

29. In Hobbes' method, 'laws of nature' are (University of Hyderabad Ph.D 2022)

30. What does the following statement by Hobbes in Leviathan mean? "In the state of nature,  there is a war of every man against every man". (University of Hyderabad MA 2020)

31. Thomas Hobbes published his work ‘Leviathan’ in: (KERALA SET JANUARY 2023)

32. Which of the following is not related to Thomas Hobbes? (KERALA SET JULY 2023)

33. For Hobbes, 'felicity' means: (GUJARAT SET DECEMBER 2017 PAPER III)

34. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched? (GUJARAT SET 2013 PAPER II)

35. In whose theory of social contract, the ruler is not a party to the contract? (GUJARAT SET 2011)

36. In Hobbes' theory of social contract, 'Leviathan' is not subject to civil laws as: (GUJARAT SET 2008)

37. Hobbes was describe as a thinker of possessive individualism by which of the following scholars? (GUJARAT SET JULY 2004)

38. Consider the following statements about Hobbes' perception of state. Which one of them is correct? (GUJARAT SET DECEMBER 2003) 

39. Hobbes first major work on politics entitled ‘Decive’ appeared in (KARNATAKA SET 2020 PAPER II)

40. Given below are two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) and the other labeled as Reason (R). (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER II)

Assertion (A): Thomas Hobbes was inclined towards absolutism.

Reason(R): Thomas Hobbes was an Englishman who lived in the days of the civil war.

Codes:

41. Consider the following statements regarding state of nature as depicted by Hobbes (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

1.      Life was short, brutish and nasty.

2.      No distinction was made between the just and unjust.

3.      There was no right to private property in the state of nature.

4.      People were governed in accordance with law and laid downs by the sovereign.

Of the above statements which one is correct?

42. Consider the following statements of Hobbes. (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

1.      Power to make laws is one of the important attribute of sovereignty

2.      Law is an important instrument which regulates the behaviour of the individual.

3.      There is not limitation on the laws enacted by the sovereign in the form of natural law, divine law and international law.

4.      The sovereign is not above law

43. Questions are matching type. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer code. (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

44. Arrange the following books in which they appeared using the code given below (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER II)

1.      The Elements of Law

2.      Leviathan

3.      De. Hominc

4.      De. Corpore

Code:

45. According to Hobbes people left the state of nature and created state through a contract. This contract was concluded by (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER III)

46. Thomas Hobbes in his Leviathan justified. (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER II)

47. Thinkers like Hobbes and Locke are: (University of Hyderabad Ph.D 2019)

48. Carole Pateman's feminist interpretation of Hobbes's social contract is unique because (University of Hyderabad Ph.D 2023)

49. When it is argued that Hobbes 's social contract situation is not 'like a single shot prisoner's dilemma but more like a self-interested agreement where the optimal strategy is to fulfill the agreement,' the interpretive method stems from (University of Hyderabad Ph.D 2023)

50. Hobbes describes one of the following as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short": (University of Hyderabad MA 2019)

51. Which natural right, according to Hobbes, must not be surrendered to the state? (University of Hyderabad MA 2019)

52. Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau unanimously agree upon (RAJASTHAN SET 2012 PART 1)

53. Which of the following books of Thomas Hobbes has the another title "The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil? (RAJASTHAN SET 2020 PART 2)

54. Hobbes described liberty as the absence of opposition in "Leviathan". By opposition, he meant (RAJASTHAN SET 2020 PART 2)

55. Who among the following wrote, "Laws are the rules of just and unjust; nothing being reputed unjust that is not contrary to some law"? (NET December 2012 Paper II)

56. For Hobbes, 'Felicity' means (NET December 2013 Paper III)

57. From whom did Hobbes borrow the principle of resolutive composite? (NET June 2013 Paper III)

58. For whom "All existence is simply a matter in motion."? (NET June 2014 Paper II)

59. Match the following: (NET December 2015 Paper II)

60. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET June 2015 Paper II)

61. Which one of the following statements of Hobbes was wrong? (NET December 2015 Paper III)

62. Who of the following said that felicity is "continued success in obtaining those things which a man from time-to-time desires"? (NET June 2015 Paper III)

63. Whose ideas of the following were incorporated in the Philosophical radicalism of utilitarianism? (NET January 2017 Paper III)

64. Power, not right is the focal point for Hobbes. Why? (NET November 2017 Paper III)

65. Which of the following two are correct regarding the adoption of inductive method? (NET December 2019 Paper II)

(1) Plato

(2) Machiavelli

(3) Thomas Aquinas

(4) Thomas Hobbes

Choose the correct options:

66. Who stated that the life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short? (NET June 2019 Paper II)

67. Match List I with List II: (NET 2022 Paper II October Shift I)

68. According to Hobbes, what is the reason for Social Contract? (BHU MA 2015)

69. Who presents a mixture of Individualism and Totalitarianism? (BHU MA 2019)

70. Thinker representing the concept of Nation State is: (BHU MA 2019)

71. Hobbes Theory of Social Contract is explained in his book. (JMI M.A. 2022)

72. For Thomas Hobbes the two fundamental human motivations were: (JMI M.A. 2019)

73. Who propagated the concept of the ‘Leviathan’? (WB PSC 2022)

74. Who among the followings claimed that the science of politics was no longer than himself. (NET 2023 JUNE Shift I)

75. Match List I with List II: (NET March 2023 Shift II)

76. Which of the following are related to Hobbes's philosophy? (NET March 2023 Shift II)

A.    Human will, did not imply anything spiritual or transcendental

B.     Perpetual tranquility of mind

C.     Life itself is a motion

D.    There is existence of greatest good

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

77. For Hobbes, which one, among the following, is true? (WEST BENGAL SET 2015)

78. Who among the following considered Hobbes a spokesman of bourgeois morality? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

79. In which of the following works Thomas Hobbes developed the case for absolutism? (WEST BENGAL SET 2022)

80. For Hobbes, 'felicity' means (WEST BENGAL SET JANUARY 2023)

81. Who among the following wrote: "Laws are the rules of just and unjust; nothing being reputed unjust that is not contrary to some law"? (WEST BENGAL SET JANUARY 2023)

82. Give the correct answer by using the codes given below: (MAHARASHTRA SET 2016 PAPER III)

(1)   Hobbes- Natural Right

(2)   Locke - Natural Right

(3)   Rousseau - Natural Right

Codes:

83. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched? (MAHARASHTRA SET 2016 PAPER III)

84. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched? (MAHARASHTRA SET 2017 PAPER III)

85. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (MAHARASHTRA SET 2017 PAPER III)

86. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer with the help of codes given below: (MAHARASHTRA SET 2017 PAPER III)

87. Select the correct answer by using the codes given below: (MAHARASHTRA SET 2018 PAPER III)

Assertion (A): Hobbes said “Man is solitary poor, nasty, brutish and short”.

Reason (R): There can be no morality, justice, industry and civilisation.

Codes:

88. The Hobbesian contract was (KERALA SET 2013 DECEMBER)

89. Consider the following statements about social contract envisaged by Thomas Hobbes (KERALA SET 2015 DECEMBER)

1. “If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.”

2. The purpose of the Leviathan commonwealth is to uphold the natural law of self-preservation is the beginning of the concept of natural rights.

3. By social contract, every man gave up his natural rights and powers to commonwealth

4. There was no contract between the sovereign and those who appointed him. The only contract was the agreement between the people to appoint somebody they would obey.

Which of the statements given above is/are NOT correct?

90. Who described freedom as the ‘silence of the laws’ ? (MAHARASHTRA SET 2019 PAPER II)

91. Which philosopher believes the state of nature was a ‘‘War of all against all’? (MAHARASHTRA SET 2021 PAPER II)

92. Who stated, “the Leviathan is the greatest, perhaps the sole, masterpiece of political philosophy written in English language”? (KERALA SET 2013 DECEMBER)

93. Which among the following was not a characteristic Hobbesian ‘state of nature’? (KERALA SET 2018 JULY)

94. Who has regarded Hobbe’s Theory of State as the manifestation of ‘Possessive  Individualism’? (KERALA SET 2018 FEBRUARY)

95. Who said “Nature has made man so equal in the faculties of body and mind”? (KERALA SET 2019 JULY)

96. Assertion (A): In the Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes argues that through social contract a sovereign authority is created to whom every man surrendered his authority of governing himself.

Reason (R): Men found that they cannot collectively regulate their life as they did in the state of nature.

(KERALA SET 2019 JULY)

97. According to Hobbes which were the principle causes of quarrel in the state of nature?  (KERALA SET 2019 FEBRUARY)

98. Which among the following is not a feature of the social contract theory of Thomas Hobbes? (KERALA SET 2020 FEBRUARY)

99. What according to Hobbes was the status of state of nature? (KERALA SET 2020 FEBRUARY)

100. According to Thomas Hobbes which among the following right is maintained by people after forming the social contract? (KERALA SET 2020 FEBRUARY)

101. Who said, “The state is a relation between political inferiors and a political superior, and law is its command”? (Presidency University Masters Entrance Questions 2018)

102. Arrange in ascending chronological order: (Presidency University Masters Entrance Questions 2018)

1. Machianelli
2. Cicero
3. Marsilius of Padua
4. Hobbes

103. Give below are the List of authors and books. Match them by using the codes given below: (GUJARAT SET JULY 2004)

104. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (GUJARAT SET 2018)

105. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes given below : (GUJARAT SET 2019 DEC)

Assertion (A): The state of nature in Thomas Hobbes' social contract theory is the justificatory premise for the establishment of the state.

Reason (R): Hobbes understands man in the state of nature to be a 'noble savage'.

Codes:

106. According to which of the following thinkers, the institution of property was absent in the state of nature? (RAJASTHAN SET 2020 PART 2)

(i) Thomas Hobbes

(ii) John Locke

(iii) J.J. Rousseau

Choose the correct option:

107. Who among the following described freedom as the 'Silence of the Laws'? (Rajasthan SET 2020)

108. Which one of the following is advocated by Thomas Hobbes? (GUJARAT SET 2017 AUG PAPER II)

109. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET July 2016 Paper III)

110. 'Regarding physical capacity all are same', who said this? (BHU MA 2015)

111. Who presents a mixture of Individualism and Totalitarianism? (BHU MA 2015)

112. The initial thinking of Individualism is found in: (BHU MA 2015)

113. Match List-I with List-II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET December 2006)

114. Identify the correct chronological order in which the following were published: (NET December 2007)

(i) Leviathan

(ii) Modern Political Analysis

(iii) A Theory of Justice

(iv) The calculus of Consent

Codes:

115. Match the following: (WB SET 2017 Paper II)

116. Identify the correct order in which the political thinkers propounded their respective theories: (NET June 2008)

117. Who is the first modern political thinker who deliberately ignores Aristotle? (NET June 2012 Paper II)