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The Reformation

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is it called when you go against something (like an accepted truth)?

a)

heresy

b)

recant

c)

deviation

d)

tithes

2.

What is it called when an official religion says you stray from accepted belief?

a)

heresy

b)

recant

c)

deviation

d)

tithes

3.

What is it called when you take back something you said?

a)

heresy

b)

recant

c)

deviation

d)

tithes

4.

What are payments or taxes to the church called?

a)

heresy

b)

recant

c)

deviation

d)

tithes

5.

What are objects proclaimed by the church to have holy status?

a)

relics

b)

indulgences

c)

pilgrimages

d)

purgatory

6.

What are certificates that people bought to take away some of their sins?

a)

relics

b)

indulgences

c)

pilgrimages

d)

purgatory

7.

What is a holy journey that people take to a spiritual place?

a)

relics

b)

indulgences

c)

pilgrimages

d)

purgatory

8.

What place did the Medieval Church say people could work off their sins before they can go to heaven?

a)

underworld

b)

heaven

c)

the sky

d)

purgatory

9.

What is it called when you get kicked out of the church?

a)

relieved

b)

excommunicated

c)

laity

d)

removed

10.

Who is a person that travels to spread their religion?

a)

merchant

b)

banker

c)

traveler

d)

missionary

11.

What invention allowed Martin Luther's ideas to spread?

a)

Thermometer

b)

Microscope

c)

Printing Press

d)

Printer

12.

Which religious order took up missionary activities to spread Catholicism?

a)

Jesuits

b)

Mendicants

c)

Benedictine Monks

d)

Calvinists

13.

True or False: The church had absolute power during the Middle Ages.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

True or False: The Renaissance did not impact the church.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

True or False: Martin Luther refused to recant and was excommunicated.

a)

True

b)

False