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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. Where does the Pope have a right to command according to Hobbes?
(a) on the throne in the Vatican
(b) in his own territories where he is the sovereign
(c) when the sovereign abdicates
(d) all over the world

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

3. What does Hobbes call an evil inflicted on a person who has usurped or forged his or her power?
(a) a vigilante form of government
(b) might makes right
(c) necessary punishment
(d) an act of hostility

4. What does Hobbes say is a problem people have of understanding the Kingdom of Darkness?
(a) to speak about it is to die
(b) no one talks about it
(c) there is no information about it
(d) the misinterpretation of it in the Scripture

5. 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 death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus
(d) the Holy Trinity

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hobbes say is the foundation for all articles of faith?

2. Unless an ecclesiastical is also a king, what can he not do?

3. What does Hobbes refer to by the name of Tartarus?

4. What are some ways Hobbes describes the Spirit of God?

5. Who does Hobbes say can never be excommunicated?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hobbes say about popularity?

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

3. What does Hobbes identify as the Christian Commonwealth?

4. What is Hobbes' opinion of philosophy?

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

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

7. What does Hobbes have to say about the desire for absolute power?

8. What does Hobbes conclude about the Scriptures?

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

10. What does Hobbes call a spirit?

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