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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes increased levies on the land, imperiled commons, and a deflated economy?
(a) The War of the Roses
(b) The Revolutionary War
(c) The Peasant War
(d) The War of Crusades

2. How does Luther get drawn into politics during the Peasant War?
(a) Peasants feel drawn to Luther.
(b) The peasants want to burn Luther.
(c) Luther preaches pacifism.
(d) The princes enlist his help.

3. What does Luther mean by saying that God can forgive only a lusty sinner?
(a) He means that we should sin to get salvation.
(b) He means that only lusty sinners recognize their sin.
(c) He means that God takes no notice of small sins.
(d) He means that a big failure brings about great humility.

4. On what occasion does Luther utter these words: "Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen"?
(a) when facing his accusers
(b) at the end of his books
(c) on his death bed
(d) taking his monastic vows

5. Discussion is allowed in Wittenberg, but what is not allowed?
(a) Luther cannot speak publically in an advertised meeting.
(b) No meetings can have more than fifteen people present at a time.
(c) There cannot be any changes in the mass until a unanimous verdict is reached.
(d) Nothing discussed can be written down and published.

6. What does Luther think when Carlstadt attacks images and church music?
(a) that Carlstadt is wrong
(b) that Carlstadt is envious of Luther's prominence
(c) that Carlstadt is right
(d) that Cralstadt is being legalistic

7. What is a frequent struggle for Luther?
(a) debating the doubters
(b) sustaining his own faith
(c) making financial ends meet
(d) answering his critics

8. How is Luther's antisemitism expressed?
(a) They should be driven out of Germany.
(b) They should live off the land, their synagogues burned, and their books taken away.
(c) They should not be allowed to own businesses or deal with money.
(d) they should be given the choice of conversion or death.

9. What is Luther's agrarian thought?
(a) that slavery is acceptable
(b) that man should work
(c) that children should not play
(d) that everyone should farm

10. Who believes that people can come together to defend the right of each person to believe what he wants?
(a) Martin Luther
(b) The Augsburg Confession
(c) Philip of Hesse
(d) Emperor Charles

11. What does Luther say about the life of a Christian?
(a) that the Christian lives not for himself, but for God and others
(b) that the Christian lives in constant fear
(c) that the Christian has the greatest chance of offending God
(d) that the Christian is free to do whatever he pleases

12. Who writes Luther saying God is merciful and will forgive him if he returns?
(a) Frederick the wise
(b) Erasmus
(c) Duke George
(d) Hans Luther

13. In what areas does Luther excel?
(a) preaching sermons, translating the Bible, lecturing in class hall, and praying in the upper room
(b) marriage counselling and preaching on Sundays
(c) in public education and training new scribe in translation
(d) in politics and bringing differing sides to the bargaining table

14. What are Luther's Monday and Tuesday sermons?
(a) on the Pauline epistles
(b) on Bible reading
(c) on the catechism
(d) on the family

15. What does Luther feel compelled to do as more nuns leave their orders?
(a) to find the nuns homes, husbands, and positions
(b) to get the nuns to return
(c) to publicize the fact of their leaving
(d) to taunt the Pope about the nuns

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Luther's fundamental chasm with the Church?

2. Where does Luther find his objective solace?

3. What happens in 1534?

4. Who tells Frederick the Wise to separate himself from Martin Luther and muffle his blasphemous tongue?

5. How many children do Luther and Katherine care for?

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