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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens after the Diet of Worms?
(a) Luther goes into exile in england.
(b) Luther's books and picture are burned.
(c) A bounty is placed on Luther's head.
(d) The Reformation ends.

2. Where is the Luther-Eck debate held?
(a) Heidelberg
(b) Rome
(c) Constantinople
(d) Leipzig

3. What does Luther maintain about excommunication from the fellowship here on earth?
(a) It has nothing to do with the grace of God.
(b) It is God's way of keeping the pure safe.
(c) It should be applied only to the hierarchy.
(d) It is a flawed practice but still useful.

4. Who is the first to make available in print the New Testament in the original Greek?
(a) Luther
(b) Erasmus
(c) Frederick the wise
(d) Pope Leo X

5. What is the first point of the Cum Postquam?
(a) Indulgences are equal to Hebrew animal sacrifices.
(b) Indulgences relate to mercy.
(c) Indulgences apply only to penalty and not to guilt.
(d) Indulgences are one of the Keys to the Kingdom.

6. On what grounds does Luther say undecided questions should not be considered heresy?
(a) There is nothing in the Bible about indulgences.
(b) The doctrine of indulgences has not been debated.
(c) The doctrine of indulgences has not been declared officially.
(d) Everyone is entitled to his opinion.

7. Where does Luther believe the answers for living a Christian life can be found?
(a) in the edicts of the Pope
(b) in the practice of good living
(c) in the stars
(d) in the Bible

8. What does Luther believe that is in direct opposition with Papal authority?
(a) that he has been given the Keys to the Kingdom
(b) that God can speak through any righteous man
(c) that God no longer speaks to man
(d) that it is impossible to know what God wills

9. How does Luther fare as a novice in the monastery?
(a) The cannot tolerate the rough clothing.
(b) He falls asleep during night vigils.
(c) He is ashamed to beg.
(d) The rigorous life suits him.

10. Who is the disruptive Humanist of Luther's day?
(a) Frederick the Wise
(b) Melanchthon
(c) Wycliffe
(d) Erasmus

11. What does Luther think the Church is now focused on too much?
(a) income
(b) power struggles
(c) wars
(d) debate

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

13. What does Luther attempt to do unsuccessfully?
(a) perform miracles
(b) rise higher in the church hierachy
(c) learn to walk on water
(d) live the life prescribed in the Bible

14. When are Luther's primary works delivered to the printer?
(a) Christmas of 1521
(b) during his trial
(c) the summer of 1520
(d) late in 1522

15. What is happening at the same time as the Renaissance?
(a) the outbreak of the plague
(b) the Protestant Reformation
(c) the Moorish wars
(d) the division of the Roman and Eastern churches

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Luther's trial transferred?

2. What frightens Erasmus?

3. What does Luther deny?

4. What is often characteristic of Luther's emotional stability?

5. What happens in the Piazza Narona?

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