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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: the Religious Foundations of Worldly Asceticism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must owners of expensive equipment consider when hiring?
(a) How to keep up with technological trends.
(b) How to get the most for little.
(c) How to maintain their machines.
(d) How to keep their workers happy.

2. What religion caused the most conflicts in the 16th and 17th centuries?
(a) Catholocism.
(b) Puritanism.
(c) Calvinism.
(d) Lutheran.

3. How did Calvin think men could change the will of God?
(a) Through prayer.
(b) Through repentance.
(c) Through good deeds.
(d) None of these.

4. Why does the author choose the definition of the spirit of capitalism used in this book?
(a) conceptions.
(b) It is pure.
(c) There are no religious ties.
(d) All of these.

5. What does Cor. ii say men should not pursue?
(a) Full understanding.
(b) High education.
(c) Means beyond the essential.
(d) Status and power.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author say men should spend money?

2. How did Luther say God ranked things of importance?

3. What happened to the ideals of Calvinism and Baptism in the end of the 17th century?

4. Who established the Southern colonies?

5. What kind of literature does Pilgrim's Progress fall under?

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