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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. Who hides Luther at Wartburg Castle?
(a) Melanchthon, the Humanist
(b) Frederick, the Wise
(c) Charles, the King
(d) Erasmus, the Writer

2. What does Luther vow to do?
(a) to establish a new religion
(b) to leave Germany and never return
(c) to recant his heretical views
(d) to defend the truth with his blood and death

3. What belief does Luther hold about his becoming a monk?
(a) that he will no longer sin
(b) the expectation that this will lead to his salvation
(c) that he will eventually become a bishop
(d) the expectation that he will stay in the cloister all his life

4. What is the first point of the Cum Postquam?
(a) Indulgences apply only to penalty and not to guilt.
(b) Indulgences relate to mercy.
(c) Indulgences are equal to Hebrew animal sacrifices.
(d) Indulgences are one of the Keys to the Kingdom.

5. On what do Luther and Erasmus agree?
(a) The Church has become too big to manage.
(b) The Church is the only answer to humanism.
(c) The Church has become too legalistic.
(d) The Church must be preserved at all costs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does The Babylonian Captivity assert?

3. How does Luther react to the canonists who burn his books?

4. What is Humanism?

5. When are the debate notes to be published?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Luther's disagreement with the church begin with the selling of indulgences on the Day of all Saints?

2. How does Melanchthon alter Luther's teaching after his death?

3. What is the legal argument Luther makes against the legality of his case?

4. What is Luther's response to the bull Exsurge Domine?

5. What are the divergent attitudes toward Luther during his lifetime?

6. What is Luther's initial expectation about living as a monk?

7. Describe briefly how Eck and Luther argue back and forth about papal infallibility.

8. How do the ninety-five theses get into the hands of the general public?

9. Describe the rigors of monastic life.

10. What is the central idea of the Renaissance?

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