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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Luther see the nature of man?
(a) as corrupt
(b) as ignorant
(c) as innocent
(d) as idle

3. What makes Luther a national figure?
(a) his lectures at the university
(b) his picture in the newspapers
(c) his debate in Leipzig
(d) his arrest warrant from the Pope

4. How does Luther view confession?
(a) a means of controlling people
(b) unnecessary and intrusive
(c) useful as long as it is not institutionalized
(d) only as a means of learning

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

6. When was Luther allowed to take his monastic vow?
(a) almost immediately
(b) sixmonths after his arrival
(c) at the end of the first year
(d) two years after he joined

7. How does Martin Luther explain his calling?
(a) by a series of dreams he has had
(b) by a near death experience
(c) by a voice from heaven out of a thunder cloud
(d) by the aurthority of the parish priest

8. What doctrine does the church maintain?
(a) the authority of the Bible
(b) the Roman pontiff as the infallible rule of faith
(c) the right to question the Pope's edicts
(d) the authority to decrease time in purgatory

9. What sacraments does Luther accept?
(a) baptism and marriage
(b) baptism and ordination
(c) confirmation and the Lord's supper
(d) the Lord's supper and baptism

10. How does Luther differ with the Catholic Church on the Eucharist?
(a) He does not believe it slhould be limited to bread and wine.
(b) He does not believe that the bread and wine transform into the body and blood of God.
(c) He does not believe it is necessary in worship.
(d) He believes it should only be taken on Saturday.

11. What does the church, according to Bainton, readily admit today?
(a) that indulgences are correct but given too freely during Luther's time
(b) that the indulgence priviliedge was often given too incorrectly
(c) that the indulgence traffic was a scam
(d) that the indulgence traffic saved the church from ruin

12. Which congregation does Luther choose to join?
(a) the Masons
(b) the Benedictines
(c) the Augustinians
(d) the Jesuits

13. After surviving, what does Luther vow to do?
(a) say a novena
(b) do a pilgrimage to Jerusalem
(c) give all his money to the church
(d) join a monastery

14. What makes Luther's stand on infant baptism difficult to explain?
(a) that he saw children as born totally depraved
(b) that he had a particular disdain for children of all ages
(c) that he actually agreed with the position of the Church
(d) that the efficacy of a sacrament depends on the faith of the recipient

15. How does Luther begin to see that salvation comes to man?
(a) through strict obedience to the Pope
(b) thought denying all temptations of the flesh
(c) through grace and mercy of God
(d) through performing extra deeds of goodness

Short Answer Questions

1. What is happening at the same time as the Renaissance?

2. What is Humanism?

3. Who is the first to make available in print the New Testament in the original Greek?

4. How is Luther received at Heidelberg?

5. Which of the works raises the most opposition?

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