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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How many children do Luther and Katherine care for?
(a) Six of their own and four adopted orphans
(b) Over a hundred foster children over the years
(c) Twelve, the same number as the Apostles
(d) Three boys and one girl

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

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

6. What area is largely won within a decade of the Reformation?
(a) the British Isles
(b) most of Europe
(c) the northeast of France
(d) most of Northern Germany

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

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

9. When was Luther's New Testament translation first published?
(a) in 1600
(b) in 1492
(c) in 1522
(d) in 1550

10. Regardless of one's calling, what does Luther insist all should have?
(a) equal pay for equal work
(b) the attitude of Christian love
(c) time off for rest and recuperation
(d) the opportunity to advance

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

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

13. What pleases Luther upon his return?
(a) that no one remembers him
(b) that his works are being circulated
(c) the reform taking place
(d) that the Diet has stopped looking for him

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Although preaching on the same topics, how does Luther keep his preaching fresh?

2. What does Bainton suggest about the last quarter of Luther's life?

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

4. What does the second Diet of Speyer do for Germany?

5. Why does Thomas Muntzer not concern himself with the struggle to get right with God?

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