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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the meaning of excommunication?
(a) forgetting how to communicate
(b) becoming disassociated from other Christians
(c) walking instead of riding
(d) talking with a former spouse

3. 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 delegation
(d) a church

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

5. What is the end result of worshiping?
(a) mental exercise
(b) giving someone power
(c) showing superiority
(d) hole in the knees of trousers

6. What does Hobbes say is the purpose of punishment?
(a) to have a public entertainment when someone is flogged
(b) to show who is boss
(c) to prevent people from breaking the law
(d) to keep the criminals off the streets

7. What practices of the Roman Church does Hobbes take exception to?
(a) Calling the worship service a mass
(b) Missionary efforts among the heathen
(c) the canonization of saints, the procession of idols and holy images, and the use of wax candles
(d) Reading the Bible to the congregations

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

9. What was Hobbes' great objection to Aristotle's view of law?
(a) Law is absolutely necessary for any commonwealth.
(b) Men should have the freedom to interpret laws and that men govern and not the law.
(c) Interpretation of the law is not open to public forum or discussion.
(d) The law should be inflexible and only be changed by a sovereign.

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

11. What beliefs of the Roman Catholic church does Hobbes add to his list of objections?
(a) preaching, missionary work, and evangelism
(b) Bible reading, children's classes, and regular worship
(c) living ones religion, taking communion, and singing
(d) exorcism, ghosts, purgatory and fictitious miracles

12. What does Hobbes mean by anything spoken by God and those concerning Him and his government?
(a) the Word of God
(b) the Ten Commandments
(c) the Golden Rule
(d) the Prophets

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

14. How does Hobbes define punishment?
(a) an evil inflicted when a subject has committed a crime
(b) doing away with the death penalty
(c) putting innocent people in prison
(d) not sparing the rod and spoiling the child

15. When does Hobbes say there is no crime?
(a) if it is not detected, there is no crime
(b) if the sin is not identified as important
(c) if there is no civil law, there is no crime
(d) if there is sin but no criminal intent, there is no crime

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hobbes call a sin?

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

3. What does Hobbes say is the basis for a Christian Commonwealth?

4. What does Hobbes say the Scripture says regarding demons?

5. What are some Biblical books Hobbes says are written about certain people and not written by them?

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