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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 are indulgences intended for?
(a) the ability to live sinlessly
(b) the right to total absolution for a lifetime
(c) the priviledge of skipping masses
(d) the reduction of time in purgatory

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

3. How does Luther see the nature of man?
(a) as idle
(b) as ignorant
(c) as corrupt
(d) as innocent

4. What books of the Bible does Luther use for his first lectures?
(a) Geneses, I John, and Revelation
(b) Psalms, Romans, and Galatians
(c) Proverbs, Mark, and Hebrews
(d) Matthew, Acts, and II Corinthians

5. How does Martin Luther explain his calling?
(a) by a near death experience
(b) by the aurthority of the parish priest
(c) by a series of dreams he has had
(d) by a voice from heaven out of a thunder cloud

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Luther begin to see that salvation comes to man?

2. What is the first point of the Cum Postquam?

3. What happens after the Diet of Worms?

4. Where is Luther's trial transferred?

5. What is often characteristic of Luther's emotional stability?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Luther under a papal ban and how does he react?

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

3. How does Melanchthon alter Luther's teaching after his death?

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

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

6. Describe the daily prayer life in the monastery.

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

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

9. Describe the rigors of monastic life.

10. How does Luther attempt to use the confessional?

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