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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Blandina imprisoned?
(a) For her faith.
(b) She tried poisoning the governor.
(c) A client said she conned him.
(d) She preached against the government from the pulpit.

2. Where did Luther post his 95 theses?
(a) On the church door.
(b) In the church bulletin.
(c) In the town newspaper.
(d) At the library.

3. Tyndale felt that many Catholic doctrines were undermined by what?
(a) Writers paid to add.
(b) False documents.
(c) Good translation.
(d) Fictional stories.

4. What job did Athanasius have?
(a) Deacon of Alexandria.
(b) Pope.
(c) He was Bishop of Alexandria.
(d) Cardinal.

5. How did the author feel that God responded to the church?
(a) By blessing and preserving it.
(b) By turning His back on it.
(c) By smiting the enemies of it.
(d) By rescuing it.

6. What did Constantine the Great do to Christianity?
(a) He encouraged it for others, but not for his own self.
(b) He banned it.
(c) He legalized it.
(d) He laughed at it.

7. What did Polycarp do as he was dying?
(a) He cursed the governor.
(b) He recanted his faith.
(c) He asked God why he wasn't being rescued.
(d) He thanked God for the honor of dying for Him.

8. What job did Augustine have?
(a) He didn't get a job.
(b) He became a Christian teacher.
(c) He became a secular teacher.
(d) He became a priest.

9. What did the first 200 years of the church face regularly?
(a) Ridicule.
(b) Accolades.
(c) Persecution.
(d) Questioning.

10. Where did Bernard go when he was 25?
(a) To England.
(b) To start a new monastery.
(c) To Ireland.
(d) To join his first monastery.

11. What did Charlemagne build around his kingdom?
(a) Roads.
(b) Gallows.
(c) Churches.
(d) Schools.

12. From whom did Alfred defend the country for seven years?
(a) The Vikings.
(b) The Germans.
(c) The Christians.
(d) The pagans.

13. What did the governor threaten to do if Polycarp wouldn't swear his loyalty?
(a) Throw him to the lions,
(b) Shoot him.
(c) Burn him alive.
(d) Nothing.

14. What happened to Tyndale when he was captured?
(a) He was hung.
(b) He was banished from the church.
(c) He was put in a rat-infested hole.
(d) He was lashed.

15. Who were the only people who could read the Bible according to the Romans?
(a) Only the monks.
(b) Nobody could.
(c) Only priests.
(d) Only fathers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Anselm become under popular demand?

2. Why did the Council of Nicaea convene?

3. How did the Romans treat the Waldensians?

4. Who did Ambrose convert to Christianity?

5. Why were people opposed to Calvin?

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