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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is Luther's family's social status?
(a) middle class
(b) courtiers
(c) peasants
(d) aristocrats
2. What does Luther conclude that salvation cannot rest upon?
(a) on the dictates of the Pope
(b) on rituals of the church
(c) on human achievement
(d) on false hope offered by the Devil
3. Why is the issuance of indulgences popular with the Pope?
(a) It establishes his power.
(b) It is easy to do.
(c) It is lucrative for the church.
(d) It ispires the people.
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. Why does Luther reject the idea that Christ is sacrificed again at the Lord's Supper?
(a) He only consented to die one time.
(b) He made sacrifice once and for all upon the cross.
(c) To resacrifice Christ is to kill God.
(d) He cannot die over and over again.
6. What is the public opinion about Luther?
(a) It is divided.
(b) It is indifferent to him.
(c) It is solidly against him.
(d) It is solidly for him.
7. With whom does Luther prepare to debate?
(a) the Pope
(b) John Eck
(c) Frederick the Wise
(d) the college of cardinals
8. What are the two religious conditions of humanity taught to Luther all his life?
(a) the rich and the poor
(b) the saved and the damned
(c) the educated and the ignorant
(d) the earthly and the ghostly
9. What is happening in Wittenberg during Luther's absence?
(a) a revolution
(b) a regulation
(c) a restitution
(d) a reformation
10. What does Luther deny in the debate?
(a) the right to disagree with him
(b) the Divine origin of the papacy
(c) the need to destroy the church
(d) the sin of disrupting the church
11. Why does Hans Luther say his son should study to earn a living and not enter the monastery?
(a) because he should honor his mother's and father's wishes
(b) because he is too young to know his own mind
(c) because Hans is ashamed to have his son beg
(d) because Hans is not a Catholic
12. What frightens Erasmus?
(a) the threat of division and war implied in the Reformation
(b) Martin Luther
(c) the mood of the people
(d) the Church courts
13. What does Luther do in hiding?
(a) He writes letters to heads of state.
(b) He translates the entire New Testament into German.
(c) He fasts and prays.
(d) He organizes an opposition.
14. What do both Humanism and the Reformation do but for different reasons?
(a) keep peace among the people
(b) make peace with the Pope
(c) attack indulgences
(d) accept the Papal position
15. Under what condition is Luther admitted into the monastery?
(a) one year's probation
(b) a large payment from his father
(c) wearing only street clothes
(d) working as the monastery cook
Short Answer Questions
1. When is the Papal bull "Cum Postquam" issued?
2. To whom are the ninety-five theses given?
3. What is the commonly accepted belief about gaining the hereafter in Luther's Germany?
4. What does Luther's attack on indulgences do?
5. How does Luther describe the idea that the Pope can deliver souls from purgatory?
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