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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why must a sovereign publish and instruct people about his laws?
(a) because the people will then know how intelligent he is
(b) because he can confuse the people otherwise
(c) because otherwise people are in danger of being unjustly arrested
(d) because he had nothing better to do with his time

2. Unless an ecclesiastical is also a king, what can he not do?
(a) lead a church
(b) work miracles
(c) order obedience
(d) teach the Bible

3. What does Hobbes think takes reason away from young men?
(a) worship and collection of tithes
(b) blind faith in Scripture
(c) metaphysics and miracles
(d) Scripture and obedience

4. What does Hobbes say is granted to Christians who are good citizens of their commonwealth?
(a) eternal life
(b) rulership of the earth
(c) freedom from earthly laws
(d) great riches on earth

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

6. Why do God's miracles never go against the sovereign?
(a) It is not God's will to make people revolt against the leader of the nation.
(b) That would backfire on the people.
(c) The sovereign is not a prophet.
(d) God is not as powerful as the sovereign.

7. Why does Hobbes insist that the commonwealth comes first?
(a) Without the commonwealth there is no freedom of religion.
(b) God wants all people to obey the laws of their nation.
(c) The commonwealth may vote to forbid religion.
(d) One can see the commonwealth but cannot see God.

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

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

10. Who does Hobbes say began the notion of demons and it spread to many cultures?
(a) the Hindus
(b) the heathens
(c) the Egyptians
(d) the Greeks

11. 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

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

13. What warning does Hobbes give about prophets?
(a) Some people may try to pass themselves off as a prophet for their own gain.
(b) Some may be too powerful and miraculous to trust.
(c) Some may be prophets only for a short time.
(d) Some may not understand what God wants them to say.

14. When does Hobbes say there is no crime?
(a) if the sin is not identified as important
(b) if it is not detected, there is no crime
(c) if there is no civil law, there is no crime
(d) if there is sin but no criminal intent, there is no crime

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is impunity?

2. After Abraham, with whom did God renew the covenant?

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

4. What does Hobbes say is a problem people have of understanding the Kingdom of Darkness?

5. How does Hobbes classify the teaching of Greek and Roman philosophers?

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