Protestant Reformation Assignment

What was the Protestant Reformation?

• a period where people protested economic and social injustice.
• a period where people protested for reform in government and to do away with monarchs.
• a period where new religious denominations rose up challenging the traditional ways of the Catholic church

Who was the monk that protested the Catholic church, wrote the 95 Theses, and was later excommunicated?

• Martin Calvin
• Martin Luther
• Steve Martin

What was the Catholic church selling for the forgiveness of individuals sins?

• Selling clergy positions
• Selling indulgences
• Selling holy books

Which King demanded a divorce, was not granted, and went on to create his own Church; simply because he wanted to marry someone else?

• King George III
• King John I
• King Henry VIII

What Renaissance invention helped facilitate the fast spread of Protestant thinking across Europe?

• magnetic compass
• the parachute
• Gutenberg's printing press

What other historical period was occurring simultaneously (at the same time) with the Protestant Reformation which led to the challenging of the church?

• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• The Crusades

What new Christian religion developed as a result of the corruption of the Catholic Church and Martin Luther's 95 Theses?

• Protestantism
• Eastern Orthodoxy
• Islam

With what did the Catholic Church respond with in an attempt to win back followers and halt the rise and spread of Protestantism?

• The Great Schism
• Counter-Reformation
• Salvation

Church officials used ________________ to spread Christianity beyond Europe's border to other continents?

• trade
• diffusion
• missionaries

John Calvin and his belief system preached that God has already determined your fate. This was known as..

• Universal belief
• Predestination
• Destiny