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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. If he so wishes, what is a king allowed to do?

3. When does Hobbes think philosophy began?

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

5. Who does Hobbes identify as the Supreme Prophet?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Hobbes say about popularity?

3. What does Hobbes have to say about ministers of the ecclesiastical?

4. What is Hobbes' position on religious statues and icons?

5. What does Hobbes have to say about sin and crime?

6. Who does Hobbes identify as belonging to the Kingdom of God?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on Hobbes' idea that everything actually belongs to the sovereign of a commonwealth. Does your house and all your possessions belong to the government? Write your paper as an argument for or against that idea.

Essay Topic 2

Obliquely in the book, Hobbes seems to be defending the English monarchy. Write a paper pointing out how the religious part of the book might also have been a defense of the Church of England. Describing some of the facts about the origins of the Church of England, how do the part of the book attacking the Catholic church fit into that picture?

Essay Topic 3

Write a paper on imagination. Hobbes discredits most imagination as foolishness like coupling the concept of a man and a horse to come up with the idea of a centaur. Take the opposite position and write about how imagination is good and what it has given to the world.

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