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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Martin Luther explain his calling?
(a) by a near death experience
(b) by a voice from heaven out of a thunder cloud
(c) by a series of dreams he has had
(d) by the aurthority of the parish priest

5. What does Luther think he must do?
(a) sacrifice his life for salvation
(b) learn all the traditions of the church
(c) punish his body to keep himself concentrated on his goals
(d) whatever good works he needs to do in order to save himself

6. Why does Hans Luther say his son should study to earn a living and not enter the monastery?
(a) because Hans is ashamed to have his son beg
(b) because Hans is not a Catholic
(c) because he should honor his mother's and father's wishes
(d) because he is too young to know his own mind

7. Who hides Luther at Wartburg Castle?
(a) Charles, the King
(b) Frederick, the Wise
(c) Erasmus, the Writer
(d) Melanchthon, the Humanist

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

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

10. In the Catholic religion, what is the designation for the first day of November?
(a) the day of Lost Souls
(b) the feast of the harvest
(c) the day of All Saints
(d) the day of the dead

11. What frightens Erasmus?
(a) the threat of division and war implied in the Reformation
(b) the mood of the people
(c) the Church courts
(d) Martin Luther

12. What begins to be offered for contributions made on November first?
(a) a day of rest and prayer
(b) prayers for the dead
(c) extra hours for confession
(d) indulgences from the Pope

13. What does Luther deny?
(a) that he has said anything against the Pope's power
(b) that he is suffering from delusions
(c) that he received his word by Divine revelation
(d) the Pope's power to release from or consign people to purgatory

14. What do both Humanism and the Reformation do but for different reasons?
(a) attack indulgences
(b) make peace with the Pope
(c) accept the Papal position
(d) keep peace among the people

15. What makes Luther an international figure?
(a) his writing
(b) his exile
(c) his further debates
(d) his lecture tour

Short Answer Questions

1. What realization does Luther come to in Wittenberg?

2. When is the Papal bull "Cum Postquam" issued?

3. What startling accusation does Luther make in the debate?

4. Why is Luther not worried about what the opposition will do to him?

5. For whom does Luther contend complete remission of sins is granted?

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