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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. Who secures a promise that Luther will not be condemned without a hearing?
(a) King Charles of Spain
(b) Erasmus
(c) the Diet of Worms
(d) Frederick the Wise

2. What is written on top of one of Luther's pictures?
(a) He called himself a Preacher of God
(b) This is Martin Luther, Doctor of the Gospel
(c) INRI
(d) This is a Picture of Satan

3. What does Luther's attack on indulgences do?
(a) It strikes at the revenue of his own institution.
(b) It causes common people to re-evaluate religion.
(c) It brands him as a prophet.
(d) It makes him popular with the church hierarchy.

4. Finally, what authority does the Cum Postquam bestow upon the Pope?
(a) the right to change his mind
(b) the need for a central leader
(c) complete authority to change Scripture
(d) complete jurisdiction to impose penalties on earth

5. Where does Luther go after leaving Erfurt?
(a) to Wittenberg
(b) to Berlin
(c) to Brandenberg
(d) to Rome

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two religious conditions of humanity taught to Luther all his life?

2. What great movement relates itself to the Reformation?

3. What label does Humanism place on the indulgences?

4. What does the church, according to Bainton, readily admit today?

5. Second in the Cum Postquam, what does it say indulgences apply to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Luther's initial expectation about living as a monk?

2. List the major works of Luther while awaiting trial.

3. Describe briefly how Eck and Luther argue back and forth about papal infallibility.

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

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

6. What does Luther maintain about interpreting Scripture?

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

8. What are the divergent attitudes toward Luther during his lifetime?

9. How do Luther's beliefs undermine the role of priests?

10. Describe Luther's struggle of faith after coming to Wittenberg.

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