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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What is Luther's fundamental chasm with the Church?
(a) the last judgment of God
(b) the education of the laity
(c) the nature and destiny of man
(d) the sacrement of infant baptism

4. 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) finding exact meanings for Greek words
(d) his failing eyesight

5. Where does Luther find his objective solace?
(a) in preaching
(b) in translating Scripture
(c) in Scripture
(d) in conversation

6. What is the result of the Peasant War?
(a) the Pope and the Emperor are dethroned
(b) the peasants take control of the government
(c) Luther is declared governor
(d) cloisters and castles have been destroyed

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

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

9. What does Luther say about the life of a Christian?
(a) that the Christian is free to do whatever he pleases
(b) that the Christian lives in constant fear
(c) that the Christian lives not for himself, but for God and others
(d) that the Christian has the greatest chance of offending God

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

11. From where does Luther believe salvation comes?
(a) through the priest
(b) through good deeds
(c) through the hymns
(d) through the Word

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

13. What are Luther's Monday and Tuesday sermons?
(a) on the catechism
(b) on the family
(c) on Bible reading
(d) on the Pauline epistles

14. After a year in exile, where does Luther resolve to go?
(a) to go to Rome
(b) to make a trip to Wittenberg
(c) to return to his childhood home
(d) to go back to the university

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Discussion is allowed in Wittenberg, but what is not allowed?

2. Why does the Reformation in Saxony cause confusion?

3. What is a matter of difference between Luther and Katherine?

4. Regardless of one's calling, what does Luther insist all should have?

5. Who tells Frederick the Wise to separate himself from Martin Luther and muffle his blasphemous tongue?

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