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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Onslaught.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Luther preach against indulgences?
(a) to see if anyone is listening to him
(b) to make a name for himself
(c) to warn his parishioners against spiritual pitfalls
(d) to offer a better way of making money

2. What drives Luther to make extra long confessions?
(a) to get out of doing boring work
(b) to let the confessor see how religious he is
(c) to be sure that he remembers and confesses every one of his sins
(d) to earn extra indulgences to shorten his time in purgatory

3. Under what condition is Luther admitted into the monastery?
(a) a large payment from his father
(b) working as the monastery cook
(c) one year's probation
(d) wearing only street clothes

4. What are indulgences intended for?
(a) the reduction of time in purgatory
(b) the right to total absolution for a lifetime
(c) the priviledge of skipping masses
(d) the ability to live sinlessly

5. What does the church, according to Bainton, readily admit today?
(a) that the indulgence traffic was a scam
(b) that the indulgence priviliedge was often given too incorrectly
(c) that indulgences are correct but given too freely during Luther's time
(d) that the indulgence traffic saved the church from ruin

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Luther say about his first year of monastic life?

2. Besides himself, what does Luther begin to question?

3. How does Luther affirm the forgiveness of sins?

4. How does Luther describe the idea that the Pope can deliver souls from purgatory?

5. What is it that Luther seeks in the monastery?

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