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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) finances
(b) child discipline
(c) communication
(d) dietary preferences

2. What distressed Luther back in Wittenberg?
(a) that he is placed under house arrest
(b) that his friends have turned against him
(c) that he is no longer relevant to the people
(d) that his tracts have not been published

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

4. What do the peasants and the princes think of Luther after the Peasant War?
(a) Luther is upheld by the peasants and hated by the princes.
(b) Luther rises in their estimation to historic proportions.
(c) Luther is praised for helping to end the war.
(d) Luther is blamed by both sides.

5. What does Luther hold as necessary to find spiritual answers?
(a) human conflicts
(b) spiritual problems
(c) financial problems
(d) outside advisors

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

7. What does Luther believe a congregation should have?
(a) the right to build new church buildings
(b) the right to appoint and remove the minister
(c) the right to alter the liturgy
(d) the right to vote

8. How does Luther travel safely?
(a) by traveling only at night
(b) by traveling in a large group
(c) by concealing his identity
(d) by traveling with bodyguards

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

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

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

12. Besides sermons and pamphlets, what does Luther frequently write?
(a) newspaper articles
(b) poetry to his wife, Katherine
(c) song lyrics as a way to praise God
(d) letters to the Pope and church councils

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

14. What does Luther mean by saying that God can forgive only a lusty sinner?
(a) He means that only lusty sinners recognize their sin.
(b) He means that God takes no notice of small sins.
(c) He means that we should sin to get salvation.
(d) He means that a big failure brings about great humility.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Luther's agrarian thought?

2. What is the result of the Peasant War?

3. By 1527, what is the makeup of the whole electoral of Saxony?

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

5. To whom does Luther extend the priesthood?

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