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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the punishment for Bible translation?
(a) Death.
(b) Imprisonment.
(c) Banishment.
(d) Lashes.

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

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

4. What did Diocletian want to do to Christianity?
(a) Keep it to a minimum.
(b) Legalize it.
(c) Destroy it forever.
(d) Ban it.

5. What did Augustine feel about Christianity when he was young?
(a) He rejected it.
(b) He felt it was just a label.
(c) He felt like it was part of his soul.
(d) He felt a passion to share it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Luther hidden?

2. What did Gregory think about purgatory?

3. What happened when Calvin confronted the priests who were arguing against him?

4. What did the first 200 years of the church face regularly?

5. Who invaded England and defeated the Saxons?

Short Essay Questions

1. What marked the beginning of the decline of Western Civilization and how did Gregory combat it?

2. How had paganism affected the growing church?

3. When was Athanasius made Bishop of Alexandria? What was his attitude like?

4. What was so amazing about the way Polycarp died?

5. Who were the Lollards?

6. Why did people want to join Bernard of Clairvaux's monastery? How did they help others?

7. What did John Huss do that made the Pope upset?

8. What was happening to the church in its early years?

9. Why was William Tyndale considered an outlaw, and what happened as he fled persecution?

10. What was Martin Luther considered, and what did he do?

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