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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Hobbes suggest popular figures could be a danger to the commonwealth?
(a) The people will love them more than the sovereign.
(b) They are entertainers who only want to put on a show.
(c) They have the power and charisma to move people in the wrong direction.
(d) They know nothing about the workings of government.

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

4. If he so wishes, what is a king allowed to do?
(a) become the Pope
(b) to authorize the New Testament into civil law
(c) to authorize mass executions of innocent people
(d) to go to war with non-believers in the name of God

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

6. 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

7. What is one instance when a crime cannot be punished?
(a) a perpetrator is incapable of knowing right and wrong
(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) the crime has not been discovered

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

9. To what does Hobbes compare the dissolution of a commonwealth?
(a) poor hygiene
(b) an attack of the flu
(c) an intestine disorder
(d) cancer

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

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

12. 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

13. What is impunity?
(a) persecution by the law
(b) exemption from the law
(c) punishment by the law
(d) inaccurate knowledge of the law

14. 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?
(a) the house of wax
(b) the time before fire
(c) the life after death
(d) the Kingdom of Darkness

15. What does Hobbes say the goal of the Bible is?
(a) providing good literature for people to read
(b) giving the only moral code available to mankind
(c) teaching about God and the coming of the Son and the Holy Spirit
(d) giving a blueprint for establishing a commonwealth

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hobbes call a sin?

2. What does Hobbes say only God knows?

3. What is the punishment of exile?

4. 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?

5. What are the people expected to do?

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