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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Hobbes call a sin?
(a) a transgression or a breach of laws that the legislature created
(b) thinking about doing something illegal
(c) a moral transgression that everyone knows about
(d) breaking any one of the Ten Commandments

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

4. Who does Hobbes identify as ecclesiasticals?
(a) those opposed to the Christian Commonwealth
(b) mystics from the East
(c) the original twelve apostles
(d) those who are ordained to speak of the word of God.

5. When does Hobbes think philosophy began?
(a) when the Greeks began to understand science
(b) when people had no gods to worship
(c) when people had time to sit around and think about things
(d) when universities began to flourish

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of a place later called Hell?

2. Why is faith so important?

3. What did the Jews do with the concept of demons they got from the Greeks?

4. How does Hobbes classify the desire for absolute power?

5. Who are the subjects in the Kingdom of God?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Hobbes insist that the commonwealth comes first?

2. What is Hobbes' position on crime and personal survival?

3. What is a main mistake Hobbes says religious people make?

4. What is Hobbes' definition of the Kingdom of Darkness?

5. What is Hobbes' idea about honoring God?

6. What complication does Hobbes see in obeying the sovereign and God at the same time?

7. What does Hobbes conclude about the Scriptures?

8. In what ways does Hobbes say a person can be punished?

9. What does Hobbes have to say about the desire for absolute power?

10. What does Hobbes have to say about ministers of the ecclesiastical?

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