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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Second in the Cum Postquam, what does it say indulgences apply to?
(a) only to the worst of sinners
(b) only the life after death
(c) the temporal penalties of earth and purgatory
(d) the authority of the Pope

2. What does Luther say that outrages the Catholic hierarchy?
(a) Man can only be saved through philosophy.
(b) The Pope can err and a council can err.
(c) God is dead.
(d) The church is based on lies.

3. What happens in the Piazza Narona?
(a) Luther recants his position.
(b) Luther is burned at the stake.
(c) Luther's books are distributed widely.
(d) Luther's books are burned.

4. How often does Luther pray?
(a) night and day
(b) three times daily
(c) every hour on the hour
(d) seven times daily

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

6. What does Luther see as man's greatest need?
(a) the need for plenty to eat
(b) the need for work
(c) the need for forgiveness
(d) the need for storng families

7. What realization does Luther come to in Wittenberg?
(a) He is wrong to opposed the Pope.
(b) There are no hard answers in the Bible.
(c) He does more than necessary to save himself.
(d) He can never do enough to save himself.

8. How does Luther see the nature of man?
(a) as corrupt
(b) as idle
(c) as ignorant
(d) as innocent

9. What does Luther conclude that salvation cannot rest upon?
(a) on human achievement
(b) on rituals of the church
(c) on false hope offered by the Devil
(d) on the dictates of the Pope

10. What do the parishioners do when Luther refuses to sell indulgences?
(a) go to other parishes to buy them
(b) have relatives buy indulgences for them
(c) write complaint letters to the Pope
(d) ban together in support of Luther

11. What is an evidence of the radical change in Wittenberg?
(a) Priest and nuns marry.
(b) Many vigils are scheduled.
(c) Both wine and communion bread are kept from the people.
(d) Masses are only conducted for the dead.

12. What does Luther deny in the debate?
(a) the need to destroy the church
(b) the right to disagree with him
(c) the sin of disrupting the church
(d) the Divine origin of the papacy

13. In what area does Luther distinguish himself at the university?
(a) as a parochial preacher
(b) as a defender of the Catholic church
(c) as a student advocate
(d) as a lecturer on the Apostle Paul

14. What is the public opinion about Luther?
(a) It is divided.
(b) It is solidly for him.
(c) It is indifferent to him.
(d) It is solidly against him.

15. What are the two religious conditions of humanity taught to Luther all his life?
(a) the saved and the damned
(b) the earthly and the ghostly
(c) the educated and the ignorant
(d) the rich and the poor

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the works raises the most opposition?

2. What does Luther want to do with the rituals associated with confirmation, marriage, ordination, penance, and extreme unction?

3. What does the church, according to Bainton, readily admit today?

4. Why does Luther preach against indulgences?

5. Where is the Luther-Eck debate held?

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