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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a matter of difference between Luther and Katherine?
(a) communication
(b) dietary preferences
(c) finances
(d) child discipline

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

3. What does Luther think about politics?
(a) politics is only to prohibit religion
(b) politics is God's way of working things out
(c) politics is peripheral to God's service
(d) politics is the only answer for reform

4. What is a result of the expansion of the Reformation?
(a) monks and nuns leave the cloisters
(b) the Catholic Church pulls out of Germany
(c) the people begin to burn Bibles
(d) the Church begins to capitulate

5. To whom does Luther extend the priesthood?
(a) all vocations
(b) all Christian men
(c) all new converts
(d) all believers

6. Why does Thomas Muntzer not concern himself with the struggle to get right with God?
(a) because he is not sure there is a God
(b) because he is a believer in predestination
(c) because he thinks it isn't a struggle
(d) because he believes one cannot be wrong with God

7. What does Luther get from his family life?
(a) problems of a material nature
(b) comfort and a distraction from worries
(c) freedom to read and study
(d) motivation to continue

8. 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

9. What is a frequent struggle for Luther?
(a) debating the doubters
(b) sustaining his own faith
(c) making financial ends meet
(d) answering his critics

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

11. With what does Luther substitute for the chants sung by priests?
(a) organ music by classical composers
(b) religious cantatas
(c) arias sung by female voices
(d) hymns sung by the congregation

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

13. What are Luther's Monday and Tuesday sermons?
(a) on the catechism
(b) on the Pauline epistles
(c) on the family
(d) on Bible reading

14. What psychological symptom does Luther often suffer?
(a) schizophrenia
(b) paranoia
(c) psychosis
(d) depression

15. Aside from religion, what does Bainton say Luther and the Reformation profoundly affected?
(a) politics
(b) the marketplace
(c) the home
(d) the schools

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Luther travel safely?

2. Who believes that people can come together to defend the right of each person to believe what he wants?

3. What does Luther say is comforting and releases one for responsibility for his actions?

4. What does Luther believe a congregation should have?

5. What is Luther's agrarian thought?

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