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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why, according to Hobbes, is it necessary to believe God is Infinite?
(a) The finite has an end and God does not.
(b) God will accept nothing less.
(c) God is a concept and not a person.
(d) It is the only way to understand who God is.

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 everyone has forgotten it
(c) ignorance may be applied if the law is obscure
(d) ignorance may apply to someone is if he is a foreigner

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

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

5. Why must a sovereign publish and instruct people about his laws?
(a) because he can confuse the people otherwise
(b) because he had nothing better to do with his time
(c) because otherwise people are in danger of being unjustly arrested
(d) because the people will then know how intelligent he is

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

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

8. What is the meaning of excommunication?
(a) walking instead of riding
(b) talking with a former spouse
(c) forgetting how to communicate
(d) becoming disassociated from other Christians

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

10. What are some ways Hobbes describes the Spirit of God?
(a) a white light seen at the end of a tunnel
(b) a strange sensation that causes one to speak in other languages
(c) a power so strong it moves mountains
(d) the wind or a breath and sometimes it is a deep understanding and wisdom

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

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

13. What is one instance when a crime cannot be punished?
(a) an act is committed before there was a law forbidding it
(b) an act is claimed to be by order of the sovereign
(c) a perpetrator is incapable of knowing right and wrong
(d) the crime has not been discovered

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hobbes say the Scripture says regarding demons?

2. How does it become difficult to be obedient to both God and sovereign?

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

4. What is impunity?

5. What was Hobbes' great objection to Aristotle's view of law?

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