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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Hobbes insist that the commonwealth comes first?
(a) God wants all people to obey the laws of their nation.
(b) The commonwealth may vote to forbid religion.
(c) One can see the commonwealth but cannot see God.
(d) Without the commonwealth there is no freedom of religion.

2. In discussing a Christian Commonwealth, what does Hobbes have to say about Holy Scriptures?
(a) They come from the sovereign.
(b) They were written by different writers.
(c) They are not good for making a commonwealth.
(d) They were written on tablets of stone.

3. What are the ways in which, according to Hobbes, people can worship God?
(a) through prayer, giving thanks, sacrifices and oblations
(b) self flagilations and mortifications
(c) animal sacrifices and giving of tithes
(d) building great churches in the commonwealth

4. What must punishment focus on?
(a) correction and not revenge
(b) capital and non-capital methods
(c) not making the punishment fit the crime
(d) making the subject feel happy

5. 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) worship
(c) the Holy spirit
(d) conversion

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

7. What does Hobbes think takes reason away from young men?
(a) worship and collection of tithes
(b) blind faith in Scripture
(c) Scripture and obedience
(d) metaphysics and miracles

8. What is impunity?
(a) exemption from the law
(b) punishment by the law
(c) persecution by the law
(d) inaccurate knowledge of the law

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

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

11. What does Hobbes call a sin?
(a) a transgression or a breach of laws that the legislature created
(b) breaking any one of the Ten Commandments
(c) a moral transgression that everyone knows about
(d) thinking about doing something illegal

12. 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

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

14. What example does Hobbes give as a crime that is not a crime?
(a) to take back something that belonged first to you
(b) to kill a child born with a deformity
(c) to steal to survive if all other means of getting food are used first
(d) to beat a wife who disobeys

15. What does Hobbes say the Scripture says regarding demons?
(a) Demons can only be driven out by exorcisms.
(b) Demons cannot lift anything solid.
(c) Demons are as visible as angels.
(d) It is left to the individual to decide whether or not demons are real.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Hobbes define punishment?

4. Why did the idea of demons take prominence?

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

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