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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the one exception to a defense of not knowing the law?
(a) ignorance may be applied if a person cannot read
(b) ignorance may be applied if the law is obscure
(c) ignorance may apply to someone is if he is a foreigner
(d) ignorance may be applied if everyone has forgotten it

3. What did the Jews do with the concept of demons they got from the Greeks?
(a) They rejected the idea of demons altogether.
(b) They started the saying that a demon made them do bad things.
(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.

4. For what is it required to pay a certain price God is willing to accept?
(a) peaceful life
(b) redemption
(c) sovereignty
(d) unlimited abundance

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Hobbes define punishment?
(a) not sparing the rod and spoiling the child
(b) doing away with the death penalty
(c) putting innocent people in prison
(d) an evil inflicted when a subject has committed a crime

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

12. What was Hobbes' great objection to Aristotle's view of law?
(a) The law should be inflexible and only be changed by a sovereign.
(b) Law is absolutely necessary for any commonwealth.
(c) Interpretation of the law is not open to public forum or discussion.
(d) Men should have the freedom to interpret laws and that men govern and not the law.

13. What does Hobbes say is the basis for a Christian Commonwealth?
(a) mandatory Bible reading in school
(b) putting priests and bishops in charge of government
(c) eliminating all who do not believe in Christ
(d) the principles of Christian politics

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 Kingdom of Darkness
(d) the life after death

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What warning does Hobbes give about prophets?

2. Why does Hobbes insist that the commonwealth comes first?

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

4. How does Hobbes say people can poison others and thus promote the dissolution of the commonwealth?

5. How does Hobbes suggest the idea of philosophy began to grow?

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