WH Semester Exam Practice

In 1517, a German monk named Martin Luther protested against a Church official who was selling indulgences. What was an indulgence?

• A type of religious book

• A kind of forgiveness that people thought they could win by paying money to the Church

• A special prayer for salvation

• A Church position

What role did Martin Luther play in the Reformation?

• He supported the sale of indulgences

• He posted a protest on the Wittenburg Chapel door, which was reprinted and spread throughout Germany, triggering the Protestant Reformation

• He became Pope

• He founded the Catholic Church

The Inquisition Trials held by the Catholic Church questioned teachings counter to the church. What happened to Luther after he refused to recant at his trial?

• He immediately changed his views

• He was supposed to be arrested but fled to hiding; his books were burned and banned on the index of Prohibited Books but his ideas were already being practiced and spread

• He left Germany

• He became a Catholic bishop

As rulers consolidated power the Reformation opened an opportunity to weaken the power of the Church and to increase the power of nation-states and rulers.

• True

• False

The Peace of Augsburg (1555) ended religious war in Germany by:

• Making everyone Catholic

• Granting each prince the right to decide whether his subjects would be Catholic or Protestant

• Banning all religions

• Creating a new religion

Why did Henry VIII create the Church of England starting the Protestant Anglican faith (which spread to America as Episcopalian)?

• He wanted to spread Protestantism

• The pope refused to grant a divorce or annul his marriage so he could marry Anne Boleyn

• He disagreed with Catholic theology

• Parliament forced him to

The Reformation resulted in the start of many Protestant denominations with differing secondary & tertiary doctrines. What did John Calvin teach about salvation?

• Everyone would be saved

• Predestination - God determines beforehand who will be saved

• Salvation could be purchased

• Only kings would be saved

Calvin created what type of government in Geneva, Switzerland? These ideas would spread to Puritans and become instrumental to Puritans founding colonies in America. (Great Puritan Migration)

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Theocracy - government run by religious leaders

• Republic

Anabaptists believed in which principle that differed from other Protestant groups?

• Infant baptism

• Adult baptism (require consent)

• Predestination

• Salvation through faith alone

Responding to the Reformation, who founded the Jesuit Order with goals to build the Catholic church through mission work during the Catholic Reformation?

• Martin Luther

• John Calvin

• Ignatius of Loyola

• Henry VIII