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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hobbes say is granted to Christians who are good citizens of their commonwealth?
(a) freedom from earthly laws
(b) rulership of the earth
(c) eternal life
(d) great riches on earth

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

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

4. What does Hobbes say awaits people who do not believe in Christ or the Kingdom of God?
(a) poverty and hard labor on earth
(b) reincarnation until they get it right
(c) an eternal death after judgment
(d) vanishing into nothing

5. What does Hobbes think takes reason away from young men?
(a) metaphysics and miracles
(b) blind faith in Scripture
(c) Scripture and obedience
(d) worship and collection of tithes

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

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

8. What are some Biblical books Hobbes says are written about certain people and not written by them?
(a) Exra, Nehemiah, I Peter
(b) Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and Samuel
(c) James, Jude, and Song of Solomon
(d) Amos, Obadiah, and I John

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

10. Who has responsibility for seeing that others are educated in the law?
(a) clergimen and philosophers
(b) parents and the universities
(c) the assembly or the multitude
(d) nurses and lawyers

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

12. What must punishment focus on?
(a) capital and non-capital methods
(b) making the subject feel happy
(c) not making the punishment fit the crime
(d) correction and not revenge

13. 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 ignore the will of the people
(d) not to encourage rebellion amont the nobles

14. What, according to Hobbes, is the first priority of the sovereign?
(a) to demand respect
(b) to build spnendid palaces
(c) to ensure the safety of the people
(d) to become known by other sovereigns

15. What does Hobbes say is God's right to establish His laws?
(a) His dominance over all other gods
(b) His ability to change the weather
(c) His irresistible and incomprehensible power
(d) His ability to shoot lightning bolts at men

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 does Hobbes say the Scripture says regarding demons?

3. What does Hobbes state about knowing the laws of a commonwealth?

4. Why did the idea of demons take prominence?

5. What does Hobbes call a sin?

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