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Pre-Test Reformation

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The act of selling Church offices is called?

a)

Simony

b)

Lay investiture

c)

Auction

d)

Subinfuedation

2.

What caused the Great Schism?

a)

A break-up of your favorite celebrity couple

b)

Having two Popes ruling over the Catholic Church

c)

A fight between neighbors

d)

Henry VIII divorcing his wife

3.

One of the methods the Church used to pay for its extravagant lifestyle was?

a)

Renting Churches for events

b)

Sin Taxes

c)

Selling Indulgences

d)

Raising taxes

4.

Problems within the late medieval church included all of the following except?

a)

Priests being illiterate

b)

Priests keeping wives

c)

A loss of faith in God

d)

Popes who had bought their office

5.

The profession Martin Luther had prior to the reformation was

a)

Monk

b)

Priest

c)

University Professor

d)

Both A and C

6.

The 95 Theses, written by Martin Luther in 1517 were provoked by what major activity of the church?

a)

Preaching in Latin

b)

Selling of Indulgences

c)

The Inquisition

d)

Collecting Tithes

7.

The Pope excommunicated Martin Luther after he refused to take back his teachings on the selling of indulgences. This was upheld at what meeting by the Holy Roman Emperor?

a)

Council of Constance

b)

The Meeting of the Dons

c)

The Diet of Worms

d)

The Edict of Milan

8.

John Knox was best known for

a)

helping to start the church of Scotland.

b)

His long beard that looked like John Calvin's.

c)

His religious sermons.

d)

His secular activities.

9.

John Calvin was best known for

a)

His long beard that many men copied.

b)

Being right most of the time.

c)

his belief in predestination.

d)

Being a Swiss Reformer.

10.

Menno Simons was best known for

a)

being a religious zealot.

b)

Being the leader of a boy-band.

c)

starting the Mennonite/Amish religions.

d)

his stand against all taxes.

11.

Ulrich Zwingli was a

a)

Swiss reformer.

b)

singer in the Big Band era.

c)

man who followed the Roman Catholic teachings.

d)

developer of the religious choir.

12.

The Anglican church split with the Catholic Church over the issue of?

a)

Simony

b)

Transubstantiation

c)

Henry the VIII's divorce from Catherine

d)

Baptism

13.

Elizabeth I attempted to balance the factions of Catholics and Protestants in England with what significant policy?

a)

Via Maximus

b)

Via Media

c)

"The Common Way"

d)

The New Deal

14.

The Catholic Church met to refute Protestant teachings about?

a)

Justification by faith alone (Sola Fide)

b)

Authority of Scripture

c)

Effecting a reformation in discipline or administration

d)

All of the above

15.

Who founded the Jesuits, also known as the Society of Jesus, in northern Spain in the 1530s?

a)

Ignatius of Loyola

b)

Burgess of Gardens

c)

Savonarola

d)

Pope Paul the Third

16.

The office of the Church designed to combat heresy and bring Protestants back to the Catholic Church was called?

a)

Office of Cannon Law

b)

The Missionary Sons

c)

The Congregation of the Faithful

d)

The Inquisition

17.

Mark the effects of the Protestant Reformation from the list below that had a major impact on modern history.

a)

Development of the idea of Freedom Conscience

b)

Higher Literacy Rates

c)

Bibles written in the common vernacular

d)

A key factor in the development of the State System

e)

Development of the Protestant work ethic