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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What warning does Hobbes give about prophets?
(a) Some may be too powerful and miraculous to trust.
(b) Some people may try to pass themselves off as a prophet for their own gain.
(c) Some may not understand what God wants them to say.
(d) Some may be prophets only for a short time.

2. What is an angel?
(a) a messenger of God
(b) a winged horse
(c) an hallucination
(d) a dragon

3. Who does Hobbes identify as the Supreme Prophet?
(a) Ezekiel
(b) Endora
(c) Moses
(d) Isaiah

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

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

6. Who does Hobbes identify as the first sovereign of the commonwealth of the faithful?
(a) Peter
(b) Moses
(c) Adam
(d) Abraham

7. 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 civic club
(c) a church
(d) a delegation

8. What roles does Hobbes say are assigned to Jesus Christ?
(a) a messenger for something greater to come
(b) a prophet, a physician, and a general
(c) a redeemer, a teacher, and eternal king
(d) a carpenter, a sheppherd, and a speaker

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

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

11. What are some Biblical books Hobbes says are written about certain people and not written by them?
(a) Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and Samuel
(b) Exra, Nehemiah, I Peter
(c) Amos, Obadiah, and I John
(d) James, Jude, and Song of Solomon

12. What does Hobbes say is the foundation for all articles of faith?
(a) Listening to the sovereign
(b) Hearing different ideas about religion
(c) Belief in Jesus Christ
(d) Being able to read

13. What does Hobbes describe as an external sign of God's special workings on their hearts so that afterwards they teach the Word of God?
(a) the Rapture
(b) conversion
(c) the Holy spirit
(d) worship

14. What is the name of a place later called Hell?
(a) Alcatraz
(b) Purgatory
(c) Cincinnati
(d) Gehenna

15. What does Hobbes say only God knows?
(a) how many countries there are in the world
(b) what happens to the soul of a person when he dies
(c) where to find the written word of God
(d) Whether is it necessary for a person to die

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hobbes say inspiration is used in Scripture?

2. What does Hobbes say is a hostile and illegal act by the authority?

3. Why is faith so important?

4. What must punishment focus on?

5. What does Hobbes call the worship of images?

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