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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 white light seen at the end of a tunnel
(d) a power so strong it moves mountains

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

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

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

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

6. Who does Hobbes say can never be excommunicated?
(a) a woman
(b) a judge
(c) a sovereign
(d) an ecclesiastical

7. When does Hobbes say there is no crime?
(a) if the sin is not identified as important
(b) if it is not detected, there is no crime
(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. What does Hobbes say is the first of four causes of spiritual darkness?
(a) not knowing or studying the scriptures correctly
(b) accepting false teaching without question
(c) corrupt ecclesiatics
(d) not wanting to know bad news

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

10. What does Hobbes call a crime?
(a) a sin which is intended whether committed or not
(b) a sin that obeys an unjust law
(c) a sin that is done in the darkness
(d) a sin which consists of doing what is forbidden by law

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

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

13. After Abraham, with whom did God renew the covenant?
(a) Pharoah, Nebvucadnezzar, and Caesar
(b) Isaac, Jacob, and Moses
(c) David, Solomon, and Herod
(d) Pete, Paul, and Mary

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

15. What does Hobbes mean when he says something must be strange and uncommon so people can believe it is the true work of God?
(a) a miracle
(b) a meditation
(c) a migraine
(d) a messenger

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hobbes say awaits people who do not believe in Christ or the Kingdom of God?

2. Unless an ecclesiastical is also a king, what can he not do?

3. What does Hobbes say is the basis for a Christian Commonwealth?

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

5. To what does Hobbes compare the dissolution of a commonwealth?

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