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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 rejected the idea of demons altogether.
(c) They got rid of the good ones and believed that all demons were bad.
(d) They used demons to scare and discipline their children.

2. Who is it that Hobbes says belong to the Kingdom of God?
(a) the sovereigns who answer only to God
(b) those people who believe there is a God
(c) every person under the sun
(d) only people who are members of the Church of England

3. What does Hobbes call an assembly of people who gather together to hear a priest or pastor speak to them about the word of God?
(a) a delegation
(b) a church
(c) a civic club
(d) a coven

4. When does Hobbes think philosophy began?
(a) when people had no gods to worship
(b) when people had time to sit around and think about things
(c) when the Greeks began to understand science
(d) when universities began to flourish

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

6. Why do God's miracles never go against the sovereign?
(a) That would backfire on the people.
(b) The sovereign is not a prophet.
(c) God is not as powerful as the sovereign.
(d) It is not God's will to make people revolt against the leader of the nation.

7. When does Hobbes say there is no crime?
(a) if it is not detected, there is no crime
(b) if the sin is not identified as important
(c) if there is sin but no criminal intent, there is no crime
(d) if there is no civil law, there is no crime

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

9. What example does Hobbes give as a crime that is not a crime?
(a) to beat a wife who disobeys
(b) to kill a child born with a deformity
(c) to take back something that belonged first to you
(d) to steal to survive if all other means of getting food are used first

10. Who does Hobbes identify as the first sovereign of the commonwealth of the faithful?
(a) Peter
(b) Abraham
(c) Adam
(d) Moses

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

12. 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.

13. Why did the idea of demons take prominence?
(a) People did not want to take responsibility for their own actions.
(b) People could not explain certain shadows and mysterious lights.
(c) People could not explain natural disasters.
(d) People did not understand the process of sight, memory, imagination, and dreams.

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

15. What does Hobbes caution the English Parliament not to do?
(a) not to copy the doctrines of other nations or of the Greeks and Romans
(b) not to do away with the monarchy
(c) not to encourage rebellion amont the nobles
(d) not to ignore the will of the people

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the people of a nation to become very angry and pass on their anger to their children?

2. What did the Israelites eventually want to do with their sovereignty?

3. After Abraham, with whom did God renew the covenant?

4. Who does Hobbes identify as ecclesiasticals?

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

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