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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the idea of demons take prominence?
(a) People did not understand the process of sight, memory, imagination, and dreams.
(b) People did not want to take responsibility for their own actions.
(c) People could not explain certain shadows and mysterious lights.
(d) People could not explain natural disasters.

2. To what does Hobbes compare the dissolution of a commonwealth?
(a) cancer
(b) an attack of the flu
(c) an intestine disorder
(d) poor hygiene

3. How does Hobbes classify the desire for absolute power?
(a) as natural
(b) as good for the commonwealth
(c) as a fungus
(d) as an illness

4. Why do few people ever hear the word of God to believe or reject it according to Hobbes?
(a) It is illegal to teach the word in most places.
(b) People cannot always understand the Latin Bible.
(c) God only speaks to one or very few to spread his word.
(d) Most people will not go to hear a sermon.

5. How does Hobbes say people can poison others and thus promote the dissolution of the commonwealth?
(a) with religion
(b) wit arsenic
(c) with bad doctrines
(d) with tainted drinking water

6. Who is it that Hobbes says belong to the Kingdom of God?
(a) every person under the sun
(b) only people who are members of the Church of England
(c) those people who believe there is a God
(d) the sovereigns who answer only to God

7. Who does Hobbes say can never be excommunicated?
(a) a judge
(b) a woman
(c) an ecclesiastical
(d) a sovereign

8. 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) no one can know all the laws
(d) ignorance is not a means of protection

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

10. Who does Hobbes identify as ecclesiasticals?
(a) those who are ordained to speak of the word of God.
(b) mystics from the East
(c) the original twelve apostles
(d) those opposed to the Christian Commonwealth

11. Why do God's miracles never go against the sovereign?
(a) The sovereign is not a prophet.
(b) It is not God's will to make people revolt against the leader of the nation.
(c) God is not as powerful as the sovereign.
(d) That would backfire on the people.

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

13. Why must a sovereign publish and instruct people about his laws?
(a) because he can confuse the people otherwise
(b) because the people will then know how intelligent he is
(c) because he had nothing better to do with his time
(d) because otherwise people are in danger of being unjustly arrested

14. Who does Hobbes say began the notion of demons and it spread to many cultures?
(a) the Greeks
(b) the Hindus
(c) the Egyptians
(d) the heathens

15. How does Hobbes define obedience to the laws?
(a) making sure you do not know what the law is
(b) not doing anything that can be witnessed
(c) keeping clear of the officials
(d) not sinning, as well as being charitable and loving

Short Answer Questions

1. In discussing a Christian Commonwealth, what does Hobbes have to say about Holy Scriptures?

2. What are the people expected to do?

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

4. What was Hobbes' great objection to Aristotle's view of law?

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

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