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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What begins to be offered for contributions made on November first?
(a) prayers for the dead
(b) extra hours for confession
(c) a day of rest and prayer
(d) indulgences from the Pope

2. What boast do Luther's enemies make?
(a) that he will recant
(b) that he will be burned at the stake
(c) that he will be sent to Africa
(d) that he will be excommunicated

3. What does the Reformation call the issuance of indulgences?
(a) acceptable
(b) opinion
(c) blasphemy
(d) irregular

4. What are the two religious conditions of humanity taught to Luther all his life?
(a) the rich and the poor
(b) the educated and the ignorant
(c) the saved and the damned
(d) the earthly and the ghostly

5. What happens after the Diet of Worms?
(a) The Reformation ends.
(b) Luther's books and picture are burned.
(c) Luther goes into exile in england.
(d) A bounty is placed on Luther's head.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens in the Piazza Narona?

2. On what do Luther and Erasmus agree?

3. What is it that Luther seeks in the monastery?

4. What does Luther contend makes a sacrament useless?

5. Why does Hans Luther say his son should study to earn a living and not enter the monastery?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the Catholic idea of the Eucharist that Luther initially accepts.

2. What is the central idea of the Renaissance?

3. What is the initial result of Luther's attacks on the practice of selling indulgences?

4. What is the objection to Luther's views on the mass?

5. What does Luther accomplish while in hiding at Wartburg Castle?

6. Describe Luther's busy life in Wittenberg.

7. How does Luther's disagreement with the church begin with the selling of indulgences on the Day of all Saints?

8. What evidence is Luther confronted with at his hearing before King Charles?

9. Describe the daily prayer life in the monastery.

10. What describes the stressful nature of Luther's relationship with his father?

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