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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Hobbes compare the dissolution of a commonwealth?
(a) an attack of the flu
(b) poor hygiene
(c) cancer
(d) an intestine disorder

2. What are the people expected to do?
(a) demonstrate agains the sovereign when they do not agree with the laws
(b) obey only the laws that make sense to them
(c) make more money for the sovereign so greater shows can be put on
(d) abstain from violence, private revenges, robbing, and violating their neighbors

3. How does Hobbes classify the desire for absolute power?
(a) as good for the commonwealth
(b) as a fungus
(c) as natural
(d) as an illness

4. 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) an eternal death after judgment
(c) poverty and hard labor on earth
(d) vanishing into nothing

5. What was Hobbes' great objection to Aristotle's view of law?
(a) Interpretation of the law is not open to public forum or discussion.
(b) The law should be inflexible and only be changed by a sovereign.
(c) Law is absolutely necessary for any commonwealth.
(d) Men should have the freedom to interpret laws and that men govern and not the law.

6. What does Hobbes mean when he says something must be strange and uncommon so people can believe it is the true work of God?
(a) a meditation
(b) a messenger
(c) a migraine
(d) a miracle

7. What does Hobbes say is the purpose of punishment?
(a) to prevent people from breaking the law
(b) to show who is boss
(c) to keep the criminals off the streets
(d) to have a public entertainment when someone is flogged

8. How does Hobbes define punishment?
(a) not sparing the rod and spoiling the child
(b) putting innocent people in prison
(c) doing away with the death penalty
(d) an evil inflicted when a subject has committed a crime

9. For what is it required to pay a certain price God is willing to accept?
(a) redemption
(b) unlimited abundance
(c) peaceful life
(d) sovereignty

10. What does Hobbes say is the basis for a Christian Commonwealth?
(a) the principles of Christian politics
(b) putting priests and bishops in charge of government
(c) mandatory Bible reading in school
(d) eliminating all who do not believe in Christ

11. What causes the people of a nation to become very angry and pass on their anger to their children?
(a) a leader who is only after power
(b) a period of recession
(c) a leader who travels a lot
(d) a sovereign who will not go to war

12. What does Hobbes call an evil inflicted on a person who has usurped or forged his or her power?
(a) a vigilante form of government
(b) might makes right
(c) necessary punishment
(d) an act of hostility

13. What does Hobbes refer to by the name of Tartarus?
(a) where non-believers are swallowed into a bottomless pit
(b) where the Apostle Paul was born and raised
(c) enemies of God who come from the East
(d) where dragons and monsters come from

14. What Catholic teaching does Hobbes object to?
(a) the Holy Trinity
(b) changing the bread and wine to the actual body and blood of Christ
(c) the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus
(d) baptism to become a Christian

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is a person who speaks directly to God and is a predictor of the future according to Hobbes?

2. Who does Hobbes identify as the first sovereign of the commonwealth of the faithful?

3. Why must a sovereign publish and instruct people about his laws?

4. What does Hobbes say only God knows?

5. What does Hobbes say is the foundation for all articles of faith?

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