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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hobbes define obedience to the laws?
(a) making sure you do not know what the law is
(b) not doing anything that can be witnessed
(c) keeping clear of the officials
(d) not sinning, as well as being charitable and loving

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

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

4. What does Hobbes mean by anything spoken by God and those concerning Him and his government?
(a) the Word of God
(b) the Golden Rule
(c) the Ten Commandments
(d) the Prophets

5. What are some ways Hobbes describes the Spirit of God?
(a) the wind or a breath and sometimes it is a deep understanding and wisdom
(b) a strange sensation that causes one to speak in other languages
(c) a power so strong it moves mountains
(d) a white light seen at the end of a tunnel

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

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

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

9. 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) worship
(b) the Holy spirit
(c) the Rapture
(d) conversion

10. How does it become difficult to be obedient to both God and sovereign?
(a) if the sovereign has no right to rule
(b) if the sovereign gives everyting away
(c) if the sovereign is not a Christian
(d) if there is a corrupt leader interested in his own private gains

11. What did the Jews do with the concept of demons they got from the Greeks?
(a) They started the saying that a demon made them do bad things.
(b) They got rid of the good ones and believed that all demons were bad.
(c) They used demons to scare and discipline their children.
(d) They rejected the idea of demons altogether.

12. What is one instance when a crime cannot be punished?
(a) the crime has not been discovered
(b) an act is committed before there was a law forbidding it
(c) an act is claimed to be by order of the sovereign
(d) a perpetrator is incapable of knowing right and wrong

13. Who does Hobbes identify as the Supreme Prophet?
(a) Ezekiel
(b) Moses
(c) Isaiah
(d) Endora

14. According to Hobbes, how does God declare His laws?
(a) by dreams and astrology
(b) by natural reason, revelation, and prophecy
(c) by loud voices from the skys
(d) by tablets of stone and natural disasters

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Hobbes say there is no crime?

2. What does Hobbes say is the purpose of punishment?

3. How does Hobbes classify the desire for absolute power?

4. What does Hobbes identify as a "confederacy of deceivers" who go around poisoning the minds of other people and extinguishing their faith in nature, the gospel, and God?

5. Why does Hobbes suggest popular figures could be a danger to the commonwealth?

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