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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. Who must speak of the same God in which all Christians believe?
(a) prophets
(b) any soverign
(c) mayors
(d) assemblies

2. What does Hobbes identify as heathen teaching?
(a) destroying all idols and religious icons
(b) accepting on faith what you cannot see or know as a fact
(c) demons, fairies, phantasms and mistaking consecration for conjuration
(d) believing in miracles

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

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?
(a) a coven
(b) a delegation
(c) a church
(d) a civic club

5. What does Hobbes mean by anything spoken by God and those concerning Him and his government?
(a) the Prophets
(b) the Golden Rule
(c) the Word of God
(d) the Ten Commandments

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to Hobbes, is the first priority of the sovereign?

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

3. What does Hobbes caution the English Parliament not to do?

4. Why must a sovereign publish and instruct people about his laws?

5. What beliefs of the Roman Catholic church does Hobbes add to his list of objections?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Hobbes' idea about honoring God?

2. What does Hobbes conclude about the Scriptures?

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

4. What is Hobbes' opinion of philosophy?

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

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

7. How does Hobbes attack the Roman Catholic Church as well as Greek philosophers?

8. What is Hobbes' position on crime and personal survival?

9. Briefly describe Hobbes' idea of punishment.

10. Briefly identify Hobbes' definition of the opposite of God.

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