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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To where did John Calvin escape?
(a) Geneva.
(b) Paris.
(c) Dublin.
(d) Bonn.

2. How did Gregory feel about becoming a universal bishop?
(a) He took it in stride.
(b) He was ecstatic.
(c) He didn't want the job.
(d) He felt he deserved it.

3. Where was Luther hidden?
(a) In caves
(b) Wartburg Castle.
(c) Nowhere. He was captured and burned.
(d) In the monastery.

4. Who was a major religious influence for Bernard of Clairvaux?
(a) His sister.
(b) His mother.
(c) His priest.
(d) His father.

5. How did Charlemagne feel about marriage?
(a) He was so dedicated to his wife, he wouldn't remarry even after her death.
(b) He divorced several times.
(c) He wouldn't ever get married.
(d) He would only marry if the pope blessed the union.

6. Why did the Council of Nicaea convene?
(a) To discuss the church history.
(b) To judge Christian rulers.
(c) To create a new Bible.
(d) To solve the problems dividing the church.

7. What did Constantine think he saw in the sky?
(a) A dove.
(b) A cross of light.
(c) An angel.
(d) A sword.

8. How many times was Athanasius exiled from his church?
(a) 7.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 5.

9. What did the jailers do to Blandina?
(a) They asked her to preach to them.
(b) They tried to help free her.
(c) Made her eat maggoty food.
(d) Cut her and crushed her bones.

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

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

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

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

14. What helped the dead get out of purgatory?
(a) Indulgences.
(b) Begging.
(c) Prayers.
(d) Good works.

15. Alfred the Great was king of what country?
(a) England.
(b) Germany.
(c) France.
(d) Scotland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the supreme guide of the church according to John Wycliffe?

2. What happened in Europe in the 1500s?

3. How did Tyndale die?

4. How old was John Calvin when he wrote the Institutes of the Christian Religion?

5. John Huss said he would repent if people did what?

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