Wayground logo

Free Printable Worksheets

Font size

S
M
L
XL
Worksheets

AKS 37-reformation

Total questions: 37

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Catholic Church taught that good works and faith were required for what?

a)

simony

b)

sacraments

c)

salvation

d)

excommunication

2.

The Catholic Church taught that you could gain God's grace by performing what?

a)

simony

b)

sacraments

c)

salvation

d)

excommunication

3.

Where did Monks and Priests go for rigorous religious training?

a)

convent

b)

monastery

c)

Vatican

d)

university

4.

Indulgences started as a way for people to repent for their what?

a)

sacraments

b)

debt

c)

sins

d)

excommunication

5.

What were indulgence certificates meant to take the place of?

a)

sacraments

b)

money

c)

going to church

d)

doing good works

6.

What invention during the Renaissance helped spread the ideas that were critical of the Reformation?

a)

Renaissance

b)

Printing Press

c)

Pencil

d)

Paper

7.

Many people wanted church teaching in their ______________________ (local language spoken), rather than just Latin

a)

Reformation

b)

Vernacular

c)

Sacrament

d)

Recant

8.

Which Pope issued a decree threatening to excommunicate Martin Luther?

a)

Leo X

b)

John Paul

c)

MLK

d)

Pius X

9.

Martin Luther believed that ________________ alone was enough to reach heaven.

a)

salvation

b)

good works

c)

indulgences

d)

faith

10.

Which term describes Christians who were protesting the Catholic Church?

a)

Protestants

b)

Reformers

c)

Lutherans

d)

Anglicans

11.

Martin Luther taught that the ________________ was the final authority, not the Pope.

a)

Bible

b)

Church

c)

Pope

d)

sacrament

12.

In 1517, Luther posted the (a)   Theses on the door of the church in Wittenberg.

13.

This term means a movement for religious reform

a)

protestant

b)

excommunication

c)

reformation

d)

sacrament

14.

Buying one of these would release a sinner from purgatory

a)

sacrament

b)

indulgence

c)

icon

d)

relic

15.

He wrote that men and women are sinful by nature and that God chooses very few people to save.

a)

John Calvin

b)

Martin Luther

c)

Henry VIII

d)

Pope Leo

16.

What are followers of John Calvin referred to as?

a)

Calvanists

b)

Lutherans

c)

Jesuits

d)

Catholics

17.

Which King of England broke with the Catholic Church so that he could get a divorce?

a)

Henry V

b)

Henry IIIV

c)

Henry X

d)

Henry VIII

18.

Which religion had the English monarch as the head of the Church?

a)

Lutheran

b)

Calvanist

c)

Presbyterian

d)

Anglican

19.

What was the purpose of the inquisition?

a)

end excommunication

b)

increase lay investiture

c)

stop heresy

d)

stop the crusades

20.

The Catholic Reformation is also known as the ___________________ Reformation

a)

Catholic

b)

Lutheran

c)

Jesuit

d)

Counter

21.

Which Pope issued The Index of Forbidden Books outlawing Luther's works?

a)

Pope Paul III

b)

Pope Paul IV

c)

Pope Paul V

d)

Pope Paul VI

22.

Pope Paul III called the Council of ____________ in order to eliminate existing problems of the Church.

a)

Worms

b)

Trent

c)

Wittenberg

d)

Saxony

23.

The _____________ missionary's used education to stop the spread of Protestantism in Europe.

a)

Lutheran

b)

Calvinist

c)

Jesuit

d)

Anglican

24.

What were the complaints Luther made against the Church called?

a)

95 Theses

b)

95 Wrongs

c)

Indulgences

d)

Edict of Worms

25.

Which of the following was one of Luther's criticisms of the Church?

a)

praying

b)

reading the bible

c)

belief in God

d)

sale of indulgences

26.

The "tickets to heaven" that the Catholic Church sold were known as?

a)

indulgences

b)

salvation

c)

lottery

d)

95 theses

27.

Where was Martin Luther from?

a)

England

b)

Germany

c)

America

d)

France

28.

Answer with true or false: Martin Luther believed that people should be able to read the Bible themselves

(a)  

29.

Henry VIII started his own Church because?

a)

The Pope would not give him a divorce

b)

He was opposed to indulgences

c)

he wanted people to read the bible on their own

d)

he agreed with Martin Luther

30.

What is one belief Luther held that differed from church practices?

a)

he believed the Church should sell more indulgences

b)

he opposed translating the Bible

c)

he believed Christians could be saved only by faith

d)

he supported John Calvin

31.

The idea of predestination, or the belief that God has decided who will and will not go to heaven, was created by...

a)

John Wycliffe

b)

John Calvin

c)

Martin Luther

d)

Erasmus

32.

What did Catholic leaders discuss at the Council of Trent?

a)

New prices for Indulgences

b)

The reformation of the Catholic Church

c)

How to support Protestantism

d)

How to infiltrate the Protestant Church

33.

The goal of the Counter Reformation was to...

a)

Separate the Catholic Church due to their actions in society

b)

Put people on trial that were believed to have committed heresy

c)

Ending the Crusades

d)

Ending the Protestant Reformation and bringing people back to the Catholic Church

34.

Why were people who sided withe Luther and the other reformers called Protestants?

a)

They protested against Luther

b)

They protested against the Catholic Church

c)

They accepted all Catholic teachings

d)

They all wrote the Bible into German

35.

This group was established to spread Catholicism around the world:

a)

Huguenots

b)

Lutherans

c)

Jesuits

d)

Monks

36.

Who were considered heretics by the Spanish inquisition?

a)

Any non-Catholics

b)

Muslims

c)

Anyone not Spanish

d)

Baptists

37.

During the Middle Ages, the ________________ church was the dominant church in Western Europe

a)

Orthodox

b)

Catholic

c)

Protestant

d)

Lutheran