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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes increased levies on the land, imperiled commons, and a deflated economy?
(a) The War of the Roses
(b) The Peasant War
(c) The War of Crusades
(d) The Revolutionary War

2. How many services does Luther hold on Sundays?
(a) four
(b) one
(c) two
(d) three

3. What pleases Luther upon his return?
(a) that his works are being circulated
(b) that no one remembers him
(c) the reform taking place
(d) that the Diet has stopped looking for him

4. Regardless of one's calling, what does Luther insist all should have?
(a) the attitude of Christian love
(b) the opportunity to advance
(c) time off for rest and recuperation
(d) equal pay for equal work

5. What is the result of the Peasant War?
(a) cloisters and castles have been destroyed
(b) the peasants take control of the government
(c) Luther is declared governor
(d) the Pope and the Emperor are dethroned

6. What does Luther undertake to do in his lifetime?
(a) He establishes Lutheran schools across Germany.
(b) He works to convert all people to Lutheranism.
(c) He set out to debate all who disagree with his doctrine.
(d) Luther translates the Bible, catechism, and liturgy as well as a hymn book.

7. In what areas does Luther excel?
(a) marriage counselling and preaching on Sundays
(b) in public education and training new scribe in translation
(c) preaching sermons, translating the Bible, lecturing in class hall, and praying in the upper room
(d) in politics and bringing differing sides to the bargaining table

8. What does Bainton suggest was Luther's contribution to the German language?
(a) shaping it and fashioning it for the better
(b) making it too difficult to learn
(c) making it boring and unpoetic
(d) filling it with useless Latin and Greek phrases

9. What does Bainton suggest about the last quarter of Luther's life?
(a) He has no crucial achievements.
(b) He mellows and becomes tolerant of the papists.
(c) He turns his attention to more temporal matters.
(d) He ceases to write books and hymns.

10. What does the second Diet of Speyer do for Germany?
(a) It brings all factions together.
(b) It gives universal preference to the Catholic Church.
(c) It divides Germany into two groups--Lutheran and Catholic.
(d) It outlaws the Catholic Church in Germany.

11. What, to Luther, is the ultimate problem?
(a) where to go to be safe
(b) apostacy in the Church
(c) man's relationship to God
(d) how to remain alive

12. What area is largely won within a decade of the Reformation?
(a) the northeast of France
(b) most of Europe
(c) most of Northern Germany
(d) the British Isles

13. How long does it take Luther to translate the New Testament into German?
(a) three months time
(b) six years
(c) two years
(d) the rest of his life

14. Why does the Reformation in Saxony cause confusion?
(a) because no one known who owns the church property
(b) because there are many different denominations
(c) because Catholics are being persecuted
(d) because each town has its own way of conducting church

15. From where does Luther believe salvation comes?
(a) through good deeds
(b) through the hymns
(c) through the Word
(d) through the priest

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Luther travel safely?

2. What is a result of the expansion of the Reformation?

3. What do the peasants and the princes think of Luther after the Peasant War?

4. What does Luther say about the life of a Christian?

5. After a year in exile, where does Luther resolve to go?

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