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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the people expected to do?

2. What two things does Hobbes say are necessary to be received into the Kingdom of God?

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

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

5. What does Hobbes say is granted to Christians who are good citizens of their commonwealth?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hobbes say about popularity?

2. How does Hobbes define a church?

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

4. What does Hobbes identify as the Christian Commonwealth?

5. What is Hobbes' position on religious statues and icons?

6. What is Hobbes' idea about honoring God?

7. What does Hobbes conclude about the Scriptures?

8. What does Hobbes have to say about the desire for absolute power?

9. What does Hobbes have to say about angels?

10. What complication does Hobbes see in obeying the sovereign and God at the same time?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a paper on imagination. Hobbes discredits most imagination as foolishness like coupling the concept of a man and a horse to come up with the idea of a centaur. Take the opposite position and write about how imagination is good and what it has given to the world.

Essay Topic 2

Write a paper on the effectiveness of punishments to control a commonwealth. How has that been carried to unreasonable extreme by such regimes as Saddam Hussein in Iraq? What, in your opinion, are the most effective punishments?

Essay Topic 3

Look up information about the civil war in England during Hobbes' lifetime and write a summary of the conflict to explain Hobbes' references to the war. This information can be used to explain why Hobbes wrote the book and from where many of his ideas sprang.

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