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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hobbes call a crime?
(a) a sin which consists of doing what is forbidden by law
(b) a sin that is done in the darkness
(c) a sin which is intended whether committed or not
(d) a sin that obeys an unjust law

2. What are the ways in which, according to Hobbes, people can worship God?
(a) building great churches in the commonwealth
(b) self flagilations and mortifications
(c) through prayer, giving thanks, sacrifices and oblations
(d) animal sacrifices and giving of tithes

3. What does Hobbes say is God's right to establish His laws?
(a) His ability to change the weather
(b) His irresistible and incomprehensible power
(c) His dominance over all other gods
(d) His ability to shoot lightning bolts at men

4. What does Hobbes call an assembly of people who gather together to hear a priest or pastor speak to them about the word of God?
(a) a coven
(b) a civic club
(c) a church
(d) a delegation

5. Who has responsibility for seeing that others are educated in the law?
(a) clergimen and philosophers
(b) nurses and lawyers
(c) parents and the universities
(d) the assembly or the multitude

6. What did the Israelites eventually want to do with their sovereignty?
(a) divide it into twelve commonwealths
(b) handle it by popular election
(c) give it to a king and take it away from the Judges
(d) learn from the Greeks and Romans

7. What does Hobbes say the goal of the Bible is?
(a) providing good literature for people to read
(b) giving a blueprint for establishing a commonwealth
(c) giving the only moral code available to mankind
(d) teaching about God and the coming of the Son and the Holy Spirit

8. What does Hobbes mean by anything spoken by God and those concerning Him and his government?
(a) the Ten Commandments
(b) the Golden Rule
(c) the Word of God
(d) the Prophets

9. Why did the idea of demons take prominence?
(a) People did not want to take responsibility for their own actions.
(b) People could not explain natural disasters.
(c) People could not explain certain shadows and mysterious lights.
(d) People did not understand the process of sight, memory, imagination, and dreams.

10. In discussing a Christian Commonwealth, what does Hobbes have to say about Holy Scriptures?
(a) They were written by different writers.
(b) They come from the sovereign.
(c) They were written on tablets of stone.
(d) They are not good for making a commonwealth.

11. Why, according to Hobbes, is it necessary to believe God is Infinite?
(a) God is a concept and not a person.
(b) It is the only way to understand who God is.
(c) God will accept nothing less.
(d) The finite has an end and God does not.

12. Who must speak of the same God in which all Christians believe?
(a) prophets
(b) mayors
(c) assemblies
(d) any soverign

13. What, according to Hobbes, is the first priority of the sovereign?
(a) to become known by other sovereigns
(b) to ensure the safety of the people
(c) to demand respect
(d) to build spnendid palaces

14. Where does the Pope have a right to command according to Hobbes?
(a) when the sovereign abdicates
(b) in his own territories where he is the sovereign
(c) all over the world
(d) on the throne in the Vatican

15. What two things does Hobbes say are necessary to be received into the Kingdom of God?
(a) obeying both God and the sovereign simultaneously
(b) swearing allegiance and kissing a ring
(c) taking instruction and passing a test
(d) bowing down and kissing the ground

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hobbes call an evil inflicted on a person who has usurped or forged his or her power?

2. For what is it required to pay a certain price God is willing to accept?

3. What does Hobbes say the Scripture says regarding demons?

4. According to Hobbes, how does God declare His laws?

5. What does Hobbes call the worship of images?

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