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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Spiritually, what does Luther face in Wittenberg?
(a) a town full of heretics
(b) a challenge to all he believes
(c) a variety of crises
(d) confrontation with the Devil

2. How does Luther begin to see that salvation comes to man?
(a) through strict obedience to the Pope
(b) thought denying all temptations of the flesh
(c) through grace and mercy of God
(d) through performing extra deeds of goodness

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

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

5. For whom are Luther's ninety-five theses intended?
(a) professional theologians
(b) university professors
(c) the masses of the people
(d) the Pope only

Short Answer Questions

1. What label does Humanism place on the indulgences?

2. What does Luther maintain about excommunication from the fellowship here on earth?

3. To whom are the ninety-five theses given?

4. Who is the disruptive Humanist of Luther's day?

5. What does Luther see as man's greatest need?

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