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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes Luther a national figure?
(a) his arrest warrant from the Pope
(b) his lectures at the university
(c) his debate in Leipzig
(d) his picture in the newspapers

2. What is Humanism?
(a) the belief that the proper interest of mankind is man
(b) the idea that humans invented God
(c) the theory that humans are part of God
(d) the belief that there is no God

3. Why is Luther not worried about what the opposition will do to him?
(a) the canonists have no power over him
(b) because he is safe as long as he stays in Germany
(c) because his popularity with the people will save him
(d) nothing can happen except for what God above allows

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

5. Besides himself, what does Luther begin to question?
(a) the truth of the Bible
(b) the traditions of the Church
(c) the Pope and the Catholic Church
(d) the lives of the people

6. What does Luther vow to do?
(a) to recant his heretical views
(b) to leave Germany and never return
(c) to defend the truth with his blood and death
(d) to establish a new religion

7. For whom does Luther contend complete remission of sins is granted?
(a) only to those who show worthy confession
(b) only to those who read the Bible
(c) only to those who obey the Pope
(d) only to those who fulfill all religious traditions

8. What is the first point of the Cum Postquam?
(a) Indulgences are one of the Keys to the Kingdom.
(b) Indulgences relate to mercy.
(c) Indulgences are equal to Hebrew animal sacrifices.
(d) Indulgences apply only to penalty and not to guilt.

9. What great movement relates itself to the Reformation?
(a) the Prussian wars
(b) the Age of Reason
(c) German aggression
(d) German nationalism

10. Which of Luther's family members greatly opposed his joining the monastery?
(a) his mother, Margaretta
(b) his younger brother
(c) his father, Hans
(d) his wealthy uncle

11. Who is the first to make available in print the New Testament in the original Greek?
(a) Pope Leo X
(b) Erasmus
(c) Luther
(d) Frederick the wise

12. What is released in the written document of the Diet of Worms?
(a) that Luther is to be tortured until he recants.
(b) that Luther has been exonerated
(c) that no decision has yet been made
(d) that Luther is to be regarded as a convicted heretic

13. When was Luther allowed to take his monastic vow?
(a) almost immediately
(b) at the end of the first year
(c) sixmonths after his arrival
(d) two years after he joined

14. How can many of Luther's supporters be classified?
(a) as afraid for their lives
(b) as weak and insignificant
(c) as powerful and vocal
(d) as the lunatic fringe

15. What is Hans Luther's occupation?
(a) He is a green grocer.
(b) He butchers sheep and pigs.
(c) He works in the mines and owns six foundries.
(d) He is a teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom are Luther's ninety-five theses intended?

2. What is often characteristic of Luther's emotional stability?

3. What drives Luther to make extra long confessions?

4. What realization does Luther come to in Wittenberg?

5. What happens after the Diet of Worms?

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