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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the meaning of excommunication?
(a) becoming disassociated from other Christians
(b) talking with a former spouse
(c) forgetting how to communicate
(d) walking instead of riding

2. What does Hobbes identify as heathen teaching?
(a) destroying all idols and religious icons
(b) demons, fairies, phantasms and mistaking consecration for conjuration
(c) believing in miracles
(d) accepting on faith what you cannot see or know as a fact

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

4. Who does Hobbes say can never be excommunicated?
(a) an ecclesiastical
(b) a woman
(c) a sovereign
(d) a judge

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

6. What does Hobbes say awaits people who do not believe in Christ or the Kingdom of God?
(a) reincarnation until they get it right
(b) poverty and hard labor on earth
(c) vanishing into nothing
(d) an eternal death after judgment

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

8. Who is a person who speaks directly to God and is a predictor of the future according to Hobbes?
(a) a visionary
(b) a soothsayer
(c) a prophet
(d) a vizier

9. How does Hobbes classify the teaching of Greek and Roman philosophers?
(a) as revolutionary ways of looking at God more clearly
(b) as the basis for understanding the bible
(c) as the most improtant innovation in ancient education
(d) as faulty logic and false commentaries such as that of Aristotle and Cicero

10. What did the Jews do with the concept of demons they got from the Greeks?
(a) They rejected the idea of demons altogether.
(b) They used demons to scare and discipline their children.
(c) They got rid of the good ones and believed that all demons were bad.
(d) They started the saying that a demon made them do bad things.

11. What is the one exception to a defense of not knowing the law?
(a) ignorance may apply to someone is if he is a foreigner
(b) ignorance may be applied if everyone has forgotten it
(c) ignorance may be applied if the law is obscure
(d) ignorance may be applied if a person cannot read

12. How does Hobbes define obedience to the laws?
(a) keeping clear of the officials
(b) not doing anything that can be witnessed
(c) making sure you do not know what the law is
(d) not sinning, as well as being charitable and loving

13. What does Hobbes state about knowing the laws of a commonwealth?
(a) ignorance is not a means of protection
(b) no one can know all the laws
(c) laws that are never enforced cannot be broken
(d) common men do not need to know the law

14. Who cannot perform a miracle?
(a) a devil, angel, or other spirit
(b) a true believer in God
(c) a prophet of God
(d) an apostle of Christ

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What warning does Hobbes give about prophets?

2. What does Hobbes caution the English Parliament not to do?

3. Why do God's miracles never go against the sovereign?

4. In discussing a Christian Commonwealth, what does Hobbes have to say about Holy Scriptures?

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

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