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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Luther translates the Bible, catechism, and liturgy as well as a hymn book.
(d) He establishes Lutheran schools across Germany.

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

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

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

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

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

8. During the translation process, what gives Luther a serious problem?
(a) reconciling the writings of James with the writings of Paul
(b) separating the Old Testament from the New
(c) his failing eyesight
(d) finding exact meanings for Greek words

9. What is Luther's position as he returns to Wittenberg?
(a) new advisor to Frederick the wise
(b) under the ban of both the Church and the State
(c) director of public records
(d) lector in the university

10. How is Luther's antisemitism expressed?
(a) They should live off the land, their synagogues burned, and their books taken away.
(b) They should be driven out of Germany.
(c) They should not be allowed to own businesses or deal with money.
(d) they should be given the choice of conversion or death.

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

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

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

14. On what occasion does Luther utter these words: "Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen"?
(a) taking his monastic vows
(b) when facing his accusers
(c) on his death bed
(d) at the end of his books

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom does Luther extend the priesthood?

3. What is Luther's agrarian thought?

4. To whom does Luther extend the concept of divine calling?

5. What continually comes to Luther?

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