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

2. What does Hobbes say is a hostile and illegal act by the authority?
(a) holding trials too quickly after a crime has been charged
(b) searches of a person's homes
(c) a person is injured by public authority without public condemnation
(d) indictment after very long investigations

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

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

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hobbes call a sin?

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

3. Who is a person who speaks directly to God and is a predictor of the future according to Hobbes?

4. Why is faith so important?

5. How does it become difficult to be obedient to both God and sovereign?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hobbes define a prophet?

2. Who does Hobbes identify as belonging to the Kingdom of God?

3. How does Hobbes define a church?

4. What power does the sovereign have over the church according to Hobbes?

5. From what source does Hobbes insist the idea of demons came?

6. What does Hobbes suggest is the first priority of a sovereign?

7. What does Hobbes have to say about ministers of the ecclesiastical?

8. Briefly describe Hobbes' idea of punishment.

9. What warning does Hobbes give about prophets?

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

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