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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. 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) corrupt ecclesiatics
(d) accepting false teaching without question

3. 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) eliminating all who do not believe in Christ
(d) mandatory Bible reading in school

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

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

6. What does Hobbes say only God knows?
(a) where to find the written word of God
(b) what happens to the soul of a person when he dies
(c) Whether is it necessary for a person to die
(d) how many countries there are in the world

7. In discussing a Christian Commonwealth, what does Hobbes have to say about Holy Scriptures?
(a) They are not good for making a commonwealth.
(b) They were written by different writers.
(c) They come from the sovereign.
(d) They were written on tablets of stone.

8. What is the punishment of exile?
(a) when a person is discredited and shamed
(b) when a person is put in prison
(c) when a person is banished from the commonwealth
(d) when a person's property is confiscated

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

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

11. What does Hobbes say is the foundation for all articles of faith?
(a) Being able to read
(b) Listening to the sovereign
(c) Belief in Jesus Christ
(d) Hearing different ideas about religion

12. 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) freedom from earthly laws
(d) eternal life

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

14. 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 a person cannot read
(d) ignorance may be applied if the law is obscure

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what is it required to pay a certain price God is willing to accept?

2. What does Hobbes call the worship of images?

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

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

5. Where does the Pope have a right to command according to Hobbes?

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