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Protestant Reformation

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is vernacular?

a)

Allowed them to represent a three-dimensional world on a two-dimensional surface a three-dimensional world on a two-dimensional surface

b)

Everyday language of ordinary people

c)

An intellectual movement at the heart of the Renaissance

d)

Financial supporter of the arts

2.

Who is Johannes Gutenberg?

a)

German monk and professor of theology

b)

his ideas had a profound effect on the direction of the Protestant Reformation.

c)

English Humanist who pressed for social and economic reform. Wrote the book Utopia.

d)

invented the printing press and printed a complete copy of the Christian Bible

3.

What are indulgences?

a)

used to describe a perfect society

b)

a type of pardon that lessened the time of punishment a soul faced for sins committed during a person’s lifetime.

c)

or assembly, of German princes at the city of worms.

d)

government run by the church leaders.

4.

Who is Martin Luther?

a)

English Humanist who pressed for social and economic reform. Wrote the book Utopia.

b)

printed a complete copy of the Christian Bible using a printing press with movable metal type.

c)

German monk and professor of theology who wrote the 95 theses

d)

Renaissance English poet and playwright who wrote 37 plays.

5.

What is predestination?

a)

a type of pardon that lessened the time of punishment a soul faced for sins committed during a person’s lifetime.

b)

government run by the church leaders.

c)

a method of making prints from metal plates

d)

the idea that God had long ago determined who would gain salvation.

6.

Who is John Calvin?

a)

An Italian painter also known for his sculpture, engineering, & architecture. Famous for sculpting David and painting The Sistine Chapel

b)

his ideas had a profound effect on the direction of the Protestant Reformation and he started his own religion that believed in predestination

c)

German monk and professor of theology

d)

English Humanist who pressed for social and economic reform. Wrote the book Utopia.

7.

What is a diet?

a)

or assembly, of German princes at the city of Worms.

b)

A region that included parts of what is today northern France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

c)

government run by the church leaders

d)

a method of making prints from metal plates

8.

What is the Protestant Reformation?

a)

wars over territory and power in Europe

b)

A religious, political and cultural upheaval that divided Europe into many different types of Christianity.

c)

not religious or not connected to a church.

d)

the belief that the needs of each person are more important than the needs of the whole society or group

9.

What is the Counter Reformation?

a)

holy wars on Muslims and Jews

b)

the response of the Catholic Church to the Protestant Reformation

c)

wars waged by kings in Europe against the Catholic Church

d)

the spreading of anti-semitism throughout Europe

10.

What is the Council of Trent?

a)

Post-Reformation meeting of the world's catholic bishops to reform the Church and clarify Catholic teaching

b)

the response of the Catholic Church to the Protestant Reformation

c)

or assembly, of German princes at the city of Worms.

d)

a government run by the church leaders.

11.

What are Jesuits?

a)

a denomination of Protestantism

b)

a religion created by King Henry VII

c)

the members of the Council of Trent

d)

a society of the Catholic Church that was created to stop the spread of Protestantism

12.
A religious order founded in the early 1530s by Ignatius of Loyola to counter the Reformation and spread Catholicism through missionary work.
a)
Protestant
b)
Jesuits
c)
Reformation
d)
Counter Reformation
13.

Popular name for those groups in Europe who rejected Catholicism in the 16th century 

a)
Protestant
b)

Reformationists

c)

Heretics

d)

Presbyterians

14.
Luther’s ideas and all his disputes with the Catholic Church that stated the Bible is the only source of religious truth and people do not need the clergy to interpret the Bible.
a)
Ninety-Five Theses
b)
Protestant
c)
Reformation
d)
Henry VIII
15.
A gathering of high-level church officials in 1545 to reform and define the Catholic belief system, as well as to clarify how Catholic faith differed from Protestantism.
a)
Counter Reformation
b)
Protestant
c)
Council of Trent
d)
John Calvin
16.

Allowed each prince to decide the religion of his subjects

a)

Peace of Augsburg

b)

Diet of Worms

c)

95 Theses

d)

Council of Trent

17.
Founder of the Church of England, or the Anglican Church, he had Parliament pass the Act of Supremacy, which declared the King, not the Pope, as head of the church when the pope would not grant him a divorce.
a)
Henry VIII
b)
Martin Luther
c)
John Wycliffe
d)
John Calvin
18.

What is the term for the Christian-dominated Western Europe, and also known as the Holy Roman Empire?

a)

Christendom

b)

Papal States

c)

Constantinople

d)

Vatican City