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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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

3. Why does Hobbes suggest popular figures could be a danger to the commonwealth?
(a) The people will love them more than the sovereign.
(b) They know nothing about the workings of government.
(c) They have the power and charisma to move people in the wrong direction.
(d) They are entertainers who only want to put on a show.

4. What does Hobbes say is the first of four causes of spiritual darkness?
(a) not wanting to know bad news
(b) corrupt ecclesiatics
(c) accepting false teaching without question
(d) not knowing or studying the scriptures correctly

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

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

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

8. Why is faith so important?
(a) It is part of the Christian ritual.
(b) One cannot know if the Scriptures are real.
(c) It identifies a believer.
(d) It makes it possible to see Jesus.

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

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

11. What roles does Hobbes say are assigned to Jesus Christ?
(a) a carpenter, a sheppherd, and a speaker
(b) a redeemer, a teacher, and eternal king
(c) a messenger for something greater to come
(d) a prophet, a physician, and a general

12. If he so wishes, what is a king allowed to do?
(a) to go to war with non-believers in the name of God
(b) to authorize the New Testament into civil law
(c) to authorize mass executions of innocent people
(d) become the Pope

13. How does Hobbes suggest the idea of philosophy began to grow?
(a) People had not heard about God.
(b) Philosophy became a part of public school curriculum.
(c) People even started small schools of philosophical thought.
(d) People wanted to feel self-important.

14. What is the name of a place later called Hell?
(a) Gehenna
(b) Alcatraz
(c) Cincinnati
(d) Purgatory

15. How does Hobbes say people can poison others and thus promote the dissolution of the commonwealth?
(a) with tainted drinking water
(b) wit arsenic
(c) with bad doctrines
(d) with religion

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hobbes identify as security against all evil, sickness, and death?

2. What is the one exception to a defense of not knowing the law?

3. What does Hobbes mean by anything spoken by God and those concerning Him and his government?

4. What are the ways in which, according to Hobbes, people can worship God?

5. How does it become difficult to be obedient to both God and sovereign?

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