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Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Luther's firm belief?
(a) that the Roman Church will accept his radical ideas
(b) that there is benefit in praying for the dead
(c) that no man can believe for, or answer for, another man
(d) that one man can be baptized in proxy for another

3. According to Luther, how is the Church supposed to be administered?
(a) by popular election
(b) by those with political power
(c) by those endowed with grace
(d) by force of arms

4. To whom does Luther extend the concept of divine calling?
(a) ship captains
(b) farmers
(c) all worthy occupations
(d) altar boys

5. How can Luther be described above all other outstanding attributes he possesses?
(a) a man of generosity
(b) a man of prayer
(c) a man obsessed
(d) a man of letters

6. What continually comes to Luther?
(a) large contributions of money
(b) death threats
(c) ex-nuns looking for husbands
(d) sick people wanting a miracle

7. What is something Bainton credits Luther for?
(a) molding the character of the German people
(b) making the German people look foolish to the world
(c) destroying much of German culture
(d) dividing the German people over religion

8. Why does Luther resist getting married?
(a) He thinks he has no time for marriage.
(b) He thinks he is doomed to martyrdom as a heretic.
(c) He thinks women are instruments of the Devil.
(d) He fears having children.

9. What does Luther continue to stress in his teaching?
(a) that good works people do need no faith in them
(b) that good works do not constitute any claim on God
(c) that faith must be accompanied by good works
(d) that doing good deeds will result in salvation

10. By 1527, what is the makeup of the whole electoral of Saxony?
(a) solidly Catholic
(b) half and half reformers and Catholics
(c) evangelical as opposed to Catholic
(d) almost exclusively anti-religious

11. What does Luther think when Carlstadt attacks images and church music?
(a) that Carlstadt is right
(b) that Carlstadt is envious of Luther's prominence
(c) that Carlstadt is wrong
(d) that Cralstadt is being legalistic

12. Who believes that people can come together to defend the right of each person to believe what he wants?
(a) The Augsburg Confession
(b) Philip of Hesse
(c) Emperor Charles
(d) Martin Luther

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

14. What law does Luther insist should be null?
(a) any law that puts people into slavery
(b) any law that has different criteria for different classes
(c) any demand that is contrary to the Word of God
(d) any law that favors the princes only

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes increased levies on the land, imperiled commons, and a deflated economy?

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

3. To whom does Luther extend the priesthood?

4. What pleases Luther upon his return?

5. Where does Luther find his objective solace?

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