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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 did Pascal think was vanity?

2. What first appeared in Jesus Sirarch?

3. What sense of sin did Calvin never want to leave humans?

4. How did Luther's ideas about predestination change over time?

5. Who believed man's role in life was a task?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Cromwell's ideas about the poor relate to American finances?

2. What was the major goal of most Traditionalists?

3. What was the idea of Terminism?

4. How did the ideas about the nature of man differ from Calvinism and Lutheranism?

5. What did August Francke's movement entail?

6. How did Catholics think salvation would come?

7. How did Lutheran's believe God worked through men?

8. Why did Calvinists become so judgmental?

9. How did Calvinists feel about education, and why?

10. What was Christian asceticism?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is your personal definition of The Spirit of Capitalism after reading this book?

Essay Topic 2

Power and Greed were two common themes in this book. Where did they appear, and how do they differ in their manifestations?

Essay Topic 3

What was the Reformation, and what did it cause?

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