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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Luther's firm belief?

2. To whom does Luther extend the priesthood?

3. What area is largely won within a decade of the Reformation?

4. What pleases Luther upon his return?

5. According to Luther, how is the Church supposed to be administered?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Luther's decision to marry.

2. Why are some things Luther says alarming to those who hear him?

3. What part do publications have in the first decade of the Reformation?

4. What is Luther's stand on educating children?

5. How does Luther plan to leave Wartburg Castle?

6. What is the territorial inequity involving Catholics and Lutherans?

7. What two aspects of Luther's life give him comfort?

8. How does Luther manage to keep the interest in his preaching?

9. What is the outcome of the Peasant War and how does Luther end up being viewed by the people?

10. Who ascends to the papacy after Leon X?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on Luther's formula for educating children. Express your personal opinions on the subject. Write a critique of Luther's idea that if a child will not learn, he or she should not eat.

Essay Topic 2

Write a critique of Roland Bainton's book, HERE I STAND. Discuss his organization, his use of literary devices, his objectivity, his research and scholarship. Conclude your critique with a recommendation for someone to read or avoid reading the book.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay on the oppression of serfdom on the peasants during Luther's time. Mention specifically the end of the Peasant War and what happens to so many of the peasants.

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