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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 do the parishioners do when Luther refuses to sell indulgences?
(a) go to other parishes to buy them
(b) have relatives buy indulgences for them
(c) ban together in support of Luther
(d) write complaint letters to the Pope

2. Who hides Luther at Wartburg Castle?
(a) Frederick, the Wise
(b) Erasmus, the Writer
(c) Charles, the King
(d) Melanchthon, the Humanist

3. Second in the Cum Postquam, what does it say indulgences apply to?
(a) only the life after death
(b) the authority of the Pope
(c) only to the worst of sinners
(d) the temporal penalties of earth and purgatory

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

5. What does Luther believe that is in direct opposition with Papal authority?
(a) that he has been given the Keys to the Kingdom
(b) that God no longer speaks to man
(c) that it is impossible to know what God wills
(d) that God can speak through any righteous man

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Luther do in hiding?

2. After surviving, what does Luther vow to do?

3. What is an evidence of the radical change in Wittenberg?

4. Finally, what authority does the Cum Postquam bestow upon the Pope?

5. What are indulgences intended for?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the ninety-five theses get into the hands of the general public?

2. What is Luther's response to the bull Exsurge Domine?

3. How does Luther become both a national and an international figure?

4. Briefly describe where different people stand in relationship to Luther and his defense.

5. Where is Luther's first assignment outside of the cloister?

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

7. Describe the event that caused Martin Luther to set his course on a religious life.

8. How does Luther attempt to use the confessional?

9. What is the central idea of the Renaissance?

10. How does Luther come to view God after studying the Scriptures?

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