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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Luther contend makes a sacrament useless?
(a) a lack of understanding
(b) a lack of love
(c) a lack of opportunity
(d) a lack of faith

2. Why does Luther resume his University studies?
(a) to satisfy his curiosity
(b) to qualify for the position of lector
(c) to have a way out of the cloister
(d) to learn to read Latin

3. What does Luther want to do with the rituals associated with confirmation, marriage, ordination, penance, and extreme unction?
(a) better define them
(b) make them binding laws
(c) eliminate them
(d) reform them

4. 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) To resacrifice Christ is to kill God.
(c) He made sacrifice once and for all upon the cross.
(d) He cannot die over and over again.

5. How long is Luther a monk?
(a) for his entire life
(b) for seven years
(c) for three years
(d) for nineteen years

6. What upset the canonists most about Luther's views on the mass?
(a) giving the cup to the laity
(b) changing the prayers
(c) using rye bread and water
(d) limiting it to Sundays

7. To whom are the ninety-five theses given?
(a) to the archbishop
(b) to the printer for all Germany
(c) to the Pope
(d) to the rubbish collectors

8. For whom are Luther's ninety-five theses intended?
(a) professional theologians
(b) the Pope only
(c) the masses of the people
(d) university professors

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

10. Spiritually, what does Luther face in Wittenberg?
(a) a town full of heretics
(b) confrontation with the Devil
(c) a variety of crises
(d) a challenge to all he believes

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

12. What is often characteristic of Luther's emotional stability?
(a) dogged determination
(b) lacking self-confidence
(c) mood swings
(d) insecurity

13. What does the church, according to Bainton, readily admit today?
(a) that the indulgence traffic saved the church from ruin
(b) that the indulgence traffic was a scam
(c) that indulgences are correct but given too freely during Luther's time
(d) that the indulgence priviliedge was often given too incorrectly

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

15. How does Luther view confession?
(a) only as a means of learning
(b) a means of controlling people
(c) unnecessary and intrusive
(d) useful as long as it is not institutionalized

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the Luther-Eck debate held?

2. What makes Luther a national figure?

3. What does Luther deny?

4. What do arguments arise over before the debate?

5. What does Luther say about his first year of monastic life?

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