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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. Why does Luther resist getting married?
(a) He thinks he has no time for marriage.
(b) He thinks women are instruments of the Devil.
(c) He fears having children.
(d) He thinks he is doomed to martyrdom as a heretic.

2. What does Luther say is comforting and releases one for responsibility for his actions?
(a) to believe there is no hell
(b) to believe in pre-destination
(c) to believe that salvation comes from outside ourselves
(d) to believe there is plenty of time to repent

3. What does Luther think about politics?
(a) politics is the only answer for reform
(b) politics is God's way of working things out
(c) politics is peripheral to God's service
(d) politics is only to prohibit religion

4. After a year in exile, where does Luther resolve to go?
(a) to go to Rome
(b) to make a trip to Wittenberg
(c) to go back to the university
(d) to return to his childhood home

5. What chore does Luther perform at home after marrying Katherine?
(a) washing windows
(b) cleaning the floors
(c) taking care of the garden
(d) tending the orchard

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Luther get from his family life?

2. What does Luther believe a congregation should have?

3. According to Luther, how is the Church supposed to be administered?

4. Why does Thomas Muntzer not concern himself with the struggle to get right with God?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Luther's stand on educating children?

2. What two aspects of Luther's life give him comfort?

3. What part do publications have in the first decade of the Reformation?

4. What is the risk of Luther's return to Wittenberg?

5. Describe Luther's decision to marry.

6. How does Luther view church and state?

7. In what way is Luther the champion of the working class?

8. Mention some stipulations from The Twelve Articles published by Luther on the peasant war.

9. Who ascends to the papacy after Leon X?

10. What is the territorial inequity involving Catholics and Lutherans?

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