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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Catholic teaching does Hobbes object to?
(a) baptism to become a Christian
(b) changing the bread and wine to the actual body and blood of Christ
(c) the Holy Trinity
(d) the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus

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

3. What does Hobbes state about knowing the laws of a commonwealth?
(a) common men do not need to know the law
(b) laws that are never enforced cannot be broken
(c) ignorance is not a means of protection
(d) no one can know all the laws

4. What does Hobbes call a sin?
(a) a transgression or a breach of laws that the legislature created
(b) a moral transgression that everyone knows about
(c) breaking any one of the Ten Commandments
(d) thinking about doing something illegal

5. What practices of the Roman Church does Hobbes take exception to?
(a) Calling the worship service a mass
(b) Missionary efforts among the heathen
(c) Reading the Bible to the congregations
(d) the canonization of saints, the procession of idols and holy images, and the use of wax candles

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has responsibility for seeing that others are educated in the law?

2. What does Hobbes call an evil inflicted on a person who has usurped or forged his or her power?

3. What does Hobbes call a crime?

4. In addition to the Spirit of God, what other ethereal beings does Hobbes mention?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a leader supposed to do in addition to establishing punishments?

2. What complication does Hobbes see in obeying the sovereign and God at the same time?

3. What is Hobbes' definition of the Kingdom of Darkness?

4. What warning does Hobbes give about prophets?

5. What does Hobbes say about popularity?

6. What does Hobbes conclude about the Scriptures?

7. From what source does Hobbes insist the idea of demons came?

8. How does Hobbes define a church?

9. What power does the sovereign have over the church according to Hobbes?

10. In what ways does Hobbes say a person can be punished?

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