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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Luther feel compelled to do as more nuns leave their orders?
(a) to find the nuns homes, husbands, and positions
(b) to taunt the Pope about the nuns
(c) to publicize the fact of their leaving
(d) to get the nuns to return

2. Discussion is allowed in Wittenberg, but what is not allowed?
(a) Luther cannot speak publically in an advertised meeting.
(b) Nothing discussed can be written down and published.
(c) There cannot be any changes in the mass until a unanimous verdict is reached.
(d) No meetings can have more than fifteen people present at a time.

3. Who tells Frederick the Wise to separate himself from Martin Luther and muffle his blasphemous tongue?
(a) Pope Hadrian
(b) Pope Leo X
(c) King Charles
(d) the German Diet

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

5. 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 Cralstadt is being legalistic
(d) that Carlstadt is wrong

6. What does Luther say is comforting and releases one for responsibility for his actions?
(a) to believe that salvation comes from outside ourselves
(b) to believe there is no hell
(c) to believe in pre-destination
(d) to believe there is plenty of time to repent

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

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

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

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

11. 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.

12. What chore does Luther perform at home after marrying Katherine?
(a) tending the orchard
(b) cleaning the floors
(c) washing windows
(d) taking care of the garden

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Luther, how is the Church supposed to be administered?

2. How can Luther be described above all other outstanding attributes he possesses?

3. Besides sermons and pamphlets, what does Luther frequently write?

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

5. What continually comes to Luther?

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