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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long are some of Luther's confessions?
(a) over one hour long
(b) only a few minutes
(c) for days on end
(d) as long as six hours at one time

2. What drives Luther to make extra long confessions?
(a) to get out of doing boring work
(b) to let the confessor see how religious he is
(c) to be sure that he remembers and confesses every one of his sins
(d) to earn extra indulgences to shorten his time in purgatory

3. What boast do Luther's enemies make?
(a) that he will be excommunicated
(b) that he will be burned at the stake
(c) that he will recant
(d) that he will be sent to Africa

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

5. What does Luther think the Church is now focused on too much?
(a) wars
(b) income
(c) debate
(d) power struggles

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

7. Where does Luther go after leaving Erfurt?
(a) to Berlin
(b) to Brandenberg
(c) to Rome
(d) to Wittenberg

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

9. What does Luther attempt to do unsuccessfully?
(a) learn to walk on water
(b) perform miracles
(c) live the life prescribed in the Bible
(d) rise higher in the church hierachy

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

11. On what do Luther and Erasmus agree?
(a) The Church has become too legalistic.
(b) The Church is the only answer to humanism.
(c) The Church has become too big to manage.
(d) The Church must be preserved at all costs.

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

13. What is happening in Wittenberg during Luther's absence?
(a) a regulation
(b) a revolution
(c) a restitution
(d) a reformation

14. What belief does Luther hold about his becoming a monk?
(a) the expectation that this will lead to his salvation
(b) that he will eventually become a bishop
(c) that he will no longer sin
(d) the expectation that he will stay in the cloister all his life

15. From what is it that Luther insists no man can separate another?
(a) the love of Christ
(b) the body and soul
(c) the right to the Eucharist
(d) the judgment of God

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Luther an international figure?

2. Which of Luther's family members greatly opposed his joining the monastery?

3. What does the Reformation call the issuance of indulgences?

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

5. What does Luther think he must do?

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