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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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

4. Why does Hobbes suggest popular figures could be a danger to the commonwealth?
(a) They know nothing about the workings of government.
(b) They have the power and charisma to move people in the wrong direction.
(c) The people will love them more than the sovereign.
(d) They are entertainers who only want to put on a show.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What Catholic teaching does Hobbes object to?

3. Why is faith so important?

4. How does Hobbes define punishment?

5. What does Hobbes say is the first of four causes of spiritual darkness?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hobbes define a prophet?

2. What does Hobbes say happens to one who does not believe in God?

3. What does Hobbes identify as the Christian Commonwealth?

4. Briefly identify Hobbes' definition of the opposite of God.

5. What is a leader supposed to do in addition to establishing punishments?

6. What, according to Hobbes, is the one thing that must be believed?

7. What is Hobbes' opinion of philosophy?

8. How does Hobbes attack the Roman Catholic Church as well as Greek philosophers?

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

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

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