1. PART A: Review paragraphs 1-2. Which of the following statements best summarizes the central idea of these paragraphs.
A. Men are drawn to violence and war, it is in their very nature.
Men are essentially equal to one another (in their abilities and/or potential).
C Only few foolish men believe themselves to be smarter than others.
D. If a man applies himself through hard work alone, he will be more successful
than his neighbors.
2. PART B: Which of the following quotes best supports the answer to Part A?
A. "Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of the body and mind...when all
is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as
that one man may not thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may
not pretend as well as he." (Paragraph 1)
B. "For, as to the strength of the body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the
strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy or with others that are in
the same danger with himself. (Paragraph 1)
C "And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon
words and especially that skill of proceeding upon and
That skill of proceeding upon general and infallible rules called science, which very
Few have and but in a few things, as being not a native faculty born with us, nor
Attained as prudence..." (Paragraph 2)
D."for such is the nature of men that, howsoever they may acknowledge many others
To be more witty or more eloquent or more learned, yet they will hardly believe
There may be many so wise as themselves"(Paragraph 2)