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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 does Hobbes say the goal of the Bible is?

2. What did the Jews do with the concept of demons they got from the Greeks?

3. What practices of the Roman Church does Hobbes take exception to?

4. What does Hobbes identify as security against all evil, sickness, and death?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hobbes identify as the Christian Commonwealth?

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

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

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

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

6. What warning does Hobbes give about prophets?

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

8. What is Hobbes' idea about honoring God?

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

10. What does Hobbes call a spirit?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a paper on the effectiveness of punishments to control a commonwealth. How has that been carried to unreasonable extreme by such regimes as Saddam Hussein in Iraq? What, in your opinion, are the most effective punishments?

Essay Topic 2

Write a critique of LEVIATHAN. In this paper give a brief synopsis, the parts you found most interesting, and the parts (if any) you found objectionable. Conclude with your recommendation on whether it is a good read for those who are interested in political philosophy.

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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