1.3 and 1.4 The Protestant Reformation

1. Which of Calvin’s beliefs set him apart from Catholics?

• A. papal infallibility
  

• B. predestination
  

• C. link between personal wealth and salvation
  

• D. acceptance of religious rituals

  
  

2. What did the priest Johann Tetzel do that prompted Martin Luther to take action?

• A. Tetzel sold Bibles printed in Latin.
  

• B. Tetzel accused Luther of heresy.
  

• C. Tetzel challenged Luther to defend his 95 Theses in public.
  

• D. Tetzel sold indulgences, promising buyers an assured entry into heaven.

  
  

3. How did the printing press impact the Reformation?

• A. It allowed the ideas of religious reformers to spread quickly among many people.
  

• B. It encouraged the use of Latin as the common language.
  

• C. It inreased the power of the Roman Catholic Church.
  

• D. It allowed Luther to write the 95 Theses.

  
  

4. Martin Luther helped shape the Protestant Reformation by

• A. successfully challenging abuses of the Catholic Church.
  

• B. setting up a theocracy in Geneva, Switzerland.
  

• C. encouraging and supporting the Peasants’ Revolt.
  

• D. working with Anabaptists to form a united Protestant front against the Catholic Church.

  
  
  

5. Martin Luther believed that salvation was achieved through

• A. good works.
  

• B. faith
  

• C. the authority of priests.
  

• D. the sacraments.

  
  

1. Anabaptists believed that

• A. baptism was a Catholic ritual that Protestants should reject.
  

• B. babies should be baptized immediately after birth.
  

• C. infant baptism should be followed by an adult baptism.
  

• D. infants were too young to be baptized.

  
  

2. King Henry VIII hoped that by breaking with the Catholic Church he would

• A. end papal authority in England.
  

• B. stop the spread of Protestantism.
  

• C. bring the teachings of Calvin to England.
  

• D. free Church worship from Catholic rituals.

  
  

4. The Council of Trent is important because it

• A. brokered a peace between Protestants and Catholics in Europe.
  

• B. began the process of change that became the Catholic Reformation.
  

• C. reinforced the idea that people could still reach salvation through Protestantism.
  

• D. established the Catholic doctrine that the Bible was the only source of religious truth.
  

5. Witch hunts were most deadly in the German states, Switzerland, and France because

• A. those countries had higher populations of social outcasts.
  

• B. Protestants had a special fear of magic, which they believed came from the devil.
  

• C. those countries had the most religious conflicts.
  

• D. the Inquisition was most powerful in those areas.