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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Wild Boar in the Vineyard.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are indulgences intended for?
(a) the right to total absolution for a lifetime
(b) the ability to live sinlessly
(c) the priviledge of skipping masses
(d) the reduction of time in purgatory

2. Which of Luther's family members greatly opposed his joining the monastery?
(a) his father, Hans
(b) his wealthy uncle
(c) his mother, Margaretta
(d) his younger brother

3. Who is the first to make available in print the New Testament in the original Greek?
(a) Frederick the wise
(b) Erasmus
(c) Luther
(d) Pope Leo X

4. Where does Luther go after leaving Erfurt?
(a) to Rome
(b) to Berlin
(c) to Wittenberg
(d) to Brandenberg

5. What does Luther's attack on indulgences do?
(a) It causes common people to re-evaluate religion.
(b) It strikes at the revenue of his own institution.
(c) It brands him as a prophet.
(d) It makes him popular with the church hierarchy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Luther received at Heidelberg?

2. What does the Reformation call the issuance of indulgences?

3. How does Luther see the nature of man?

4. From what is it that Luther insists no man can separate another?

5. To whom are the ninety-five theses given?

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