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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Hobbes describe as an external sign of God's special workings on their hearts so that afterwards they teach the Word of God?
(a) the Rapture
(b) conversion
(c) worship
(d) the Holy spirit

5. What is an angel?
(a) a dragon
(b) a messenger of God
(c) a winged horse
(d) an hallucination

6. What beliefs of the Roman Catholic church does Hobbes add to his list of objections?
(a) exorcism, ghosts, purgatory and fictitious miracles
(b) preaching, missionary work, and evangelism
(c) living ones religion, taking communion, and singing
(d) Bible reading, children's classes, and regular worship

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

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

9. What did the Israelites eventually want to do with their sovereignty?
(a) divide it into twelve commonwealths
(b) handle it by popular election
(c) give it to a king and take it away from the Judges
(d) learn from the Greeks and Romans

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

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

12. Who are the subjects in the Kingdom of God?
(a) only angels and heavenly choirs
(b) everyone all over the world
(c) all men who have made a pact with him to be part of his Kingdom
(d) all people preselected for membership

13. What are some Biblical books Hobbes says are written about certain people and not written by them?
(a) James, Jude, and Song of Solomon
(b) Exra, Nehemiah, I Peter
(c) Amos, Obadiah, and I John
(d) Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and Samuel

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Hobbes identify as the Supreme Prophet?

3. What does Hobbes call a sin?

4. What, according to Hobbes, is the first priority of the sovereign?

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

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