Question 1

In the Calvinist theocracy

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A) older, pious male members of the community acted as governors. 
B) church courts were independent of state institutions. 
C) irreligious and sinful behavior was severely punished. 
D) dress and business affairs were subject to strict discipline . 
E) all of the above 
A) older, pious male members of the community acted as governors. 
B) church courts were independent of state institutions. 
C) irreligious and sinful behavior was severely punished. 
D) dress and business affairs were subject to strict discipline . 
E) all of the above

Question 2

Which of the following would NOT be consistent with Luther's and Calvin's views on predestination?

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A) God freely decides to whom he will grant faith and to whom he will not; only those to whom he has granted faith can go to heaven. 
B) No matter how devout or how many truly good works a person has performed, he is predestined to hell if God has decided not to grant him faith. 
C) Those predestined by God to go to heaven are the elect, the rest are the damned. 
D) With proper piety and humility, a person may know with certainty whether or not he has been granted salvation. 
E) God's omniscience and omnipotence requires the concept of predestination. 
A) God freely decides to whom he will grant faith and to whom he will not; only those to whom he has granted faith can go to heaven. 
B) No matter how devout or how many truly good works a person has performed, he is predestined to hell if God has decided not to grant him faith. 
C) Those predestined by God to go to heaven are the elect, the rest are the damned. 
D) With proper piety and humility, a person may know with certainty whether or not he has been granted salvation. 
E) God's omniscience and omnipotence requires the concept of predestination.

Question 3

Which of the following is NOT true of King Henry IV of France?

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A) He was the Protestant bridegroom in the marriage that sparked the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572. 
B) He was killed on the battlefield in the French wars of religion. 
C) He issued the first document that attempted to institutionalize a degree of religious toleration. 
D) He converted to Catholicism to attain the throne. 
E) He established tentative peace in the French wars of religion. 
A) He was the Protestant bridegroom in the marriage that sparked the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572. 
B) He was killed on the battlefield in the French wars of religion. 
C) He issued the first document that attempted to institutionalize a degree of religious toleration. 
D) He converted to Catholicism to attain the throne. 
E) He established tentative peace in the French wars of religion.

Question 4

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 predestination

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Predestination is a theological concept

Question 5

When Luther called upon the nobility to act as "both judge and executioner," he was condemning the

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A) lords who did not convert. 
B) radical Protestants who rebelled. 
C) peasants who were in revolt. 
D) clergy who still tried to collect fees for indulgences. 
E) petty lawlessness in German society. 
A) lords who did not convert. 
B) radical Protestants who rebelled. 
C) peasants who were in revolt. 
D) clergy who still tried to collect fees for indulgences. 
E) petty lawlessness in German society.

Question 6

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).   
 Mark the boundaries of the areas dominated by Lutherans, Calvinists, and the Church of England. Label each.

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The answer of Instructions: Please use this outline map of...

Question 7

The founder of the Protestant Reformation was

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A) the Frenchman, Peter Waldo. 
B) the Englishman, John Wycliffe. 
C) the Czech, Jan Hus. 
D) the Dutchman, Desiderius Erasmus. 
E) the German, Martin Luther. 
A) the Frenchman, Peter Waldo. 
B) the Englishman, John Wycliffe. 
C) the Czech, Jan Hus. 
D) the Dutchman, Desiderius Erasmus. 
E) the German, Martin Luther.

Question 8

The new religiosity in the Late Middle Ages included all of the following EXCEPT

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A) mysticism and a widespread desire for a direct contact between God and the individual. 
B) millenarian thinking. 
C) Church condemnation of the devotio moderna . 
D) communities of clergy and laity called the Brethren of the Common Life. 
E) an application of humanism to Christianity. 
A) mysticism and a widespread desire for a direct contact between God and the individual. 
B) millenarian thinking. 
C) Church condemnation of the devotio moderna . 
D) communities of clergy and laity called the Brethren of the Common Life. 
E) an application of humanism to Christianity.

Question 9

The publication of the Ninety-Five Theses was prompted by the

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A) activities of Tetzel. 
B) excommunication of Luther. 
C) need of Catholic authorities to respond to Luther. 
D) public's desire to know the specific charges against Luther. 
E) plot of Luther's enemies to get him in trouble. 
A) activities of Tetzel. 
B) excommunication of Luther. 
C) need of Catholic authorities to respond to Luther. 
D) public's desire to know the specific charges against Luther. 
E) plot of Luther's enemies to get him in trouble.

Question 10

Choose the correct sequence of events.

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A) Luther's Ninety-Five Theses , Calvin's reformation in Geneva, French wars of religion, the beginning of the English Reformation 
B) Luther's Ninety-Five Theses , the beginning of the English Reformation, Calvin's reformation in Geneva, French wars of religion 
C) Luther's Ninety-Five Theses , French wars of religion, founding of the Society of Jesus, Presbyterianism in Scotland 
D) German Peasants' Revolt, Luther's Ninety-Five Theses , the English Revolution, Anabaptist rule in Münster 
E) beginning of the English R eformation, Luther's Ninety-Five Theses , Calvin's reformation in Geneva, French wars of religion 
A) Luther's Ninety-Five Theses , Calvin's reformation in Geneva, French wars of religion, the beginning of the English Reformation 
B) Luther's Ninety-Five Theses , the beginning of the English Reformation, Calvin's reformation in Geneva, French wars of religion 
C) Luther's Ninety-Five Theses , French wars of religion, founding of the Society of Jesus, Presbyterianism in Scotland 
D) German Peasants' Revolt, Luther's Ninety-Five Theses , the English Revolution, Anabaptist rule in Münster 
E) beginning of the English R eformation, Luther's Ninety-Five Theses , Calvin's reformation in Geneva, French wars of religion

Question 11

Calvinist ethics were most compatible with

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A) merchants. 
B) monasticism. 
C) feudalism. 
D) peasant communalism. 
E) chivalry. 
A) merchants. 
B) monasticism. 
C) feudalism. 
D) peasant communalism. 
E) chivalry.

Question 12

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Discuss how political, economic, and social conditions of the sixteenth century exacerbated the unrest associated with the Protestant Reformation.

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The sixteenth century was a time of sign

Question 13

Which of the following is true of the Radical Reformation?

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A) It went underground in the late sixteenth century. 
B) It resurfaced in the English Revolution of 1640 to 1660. 
C) It left a significant tradition of antihierarchical thought. 
D) It helped shape modern democratic thought. 
E) all of the above 
A) It went underground in the late sixteenth century. 
B) It resurfaced in the English Revolution of 1640 to 1660. 
C) It left a significant tradition of antihierarchical thought. 
D) It helped shape modern democratic thought. 
E) all of the above

Question 14

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 Catholic Reformation/Counter-Reformation

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The Catholic Reformation, also known as

Question 15

Katharina von Bora was

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A) an Anabaptist preacher in northern Poland. 
B) John Calvin's wife. 
C) Martin Luther's wife. 
D) wife of Frederick, Elector of Saxony, and an early convert to Luther's reforming views. 
E) a mystic and a Zwinglian. 
A) an Anabaptist preacher in northern Poland. 
B) John Calvin's wife. 
C) Martin Luther's wife. 
D) wife of Frederick, Elector of Saxony, and an early convert to Luther's reforming views. 
E) a mystic and a Zwinglian.

Question 16

According to the text, Calvinism became a revolutionary ideology because it

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A) was the first to publish cogent arguments for political revolution. 
B) preached social revolution including the abolition of private property. 
C) enlivened Lutheranism with a powerful intellectual vision. 
D) challenged the Catholic church. 
E) advocated the complete separation of the church and state. 
A) was the first to publish cogent arguments for political revolution. 
B) preached social revolution including the abolition of private property. 
C) enlivened Lutheranism with a powerful intellectual vision. 
D) challenged the Catholic church. 
E) advocated the complete separation of the church and state.

Question 17

Which of the following was part of Henry VIII's reformation of the Church in England?

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A) Henry VIII had no English anticlerical tradition from which to draw support for his religious changes. 
B) Henry VIII did not involve Parliament in his religious policies. 
C) Henry VIII disbanded monastic orders and confiscated their land. 
D) Henry VIII had the Church in England adopt the views and practices of Calvin's Geneva. 
E) Henry VIII refused to tolerate the continuation of Catholicism among sections of the English population. 
A) Henry VIII had no English anticlerical tradition from which to draw support for his religious changes. 
B) Henry VIII did not involve Parliament in his religious policies. 
C) Henry VIII disbanded monastic orders and confiscated their land. 
D) Henry VIII had the Church in England adopt the views and practices of Calvin's Geneva. 
E) Henry VIII refused to tolerate the continuation of Catholicism among sections of the English population.

Question 18

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 inner light

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Inner Light

Who?
The concept of "inner

Question 19

According to Luther, the gulf between God and humans could only be bridged by

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A) a priest. 
B) the sacraments. 
C) church ceremonies. 
D) confinement in convents and monasteries. 
E) a personal relationship with God. 
A) a priest. 
B) the sacraments. 
C) church ceremonies. 
D) confinement in convents and monasteries. 
E) a personal relationship with God.

Question 20

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 devotio moderna

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The Devotio Moderna was a religious move

Exam 14: The Reformation the Shattering of Christian Unity

In the Calvinist theocracy

Which of the following would NOT be consistent with Luther's and Calvin's views on predestination?

Which of the following is NOT true of King Henry IV of France?

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? predestination

When Luther called upon the nobility to act as "both judge and executioner," he was condemning the

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). Mark the boundaries of the areas dominated by Lutherans, Calvinists, and the Church of England. Label each.

The founder of the Protestant Reformation was

The new religiosity in the Late Middle Ages included all of the following EXCEPT

The publication of the Ninety-Five Theses was prompted by the

Choose the correct sequence of events.

Calvinist ethics were most compatible with

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Discuss how political, economic, and social conditions of the sixteenth century exacerbated the unrest associated with the Protestant Reformation.

Which of the following is true of the Radical Reformation?

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Catholic Reformation/Counter-Reformation

Katharina von Bora was

According to the text, Calvinism became a revolutionary ideology because it

Which of the following was part of Henry VIII's reformation of the Church in England?

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? inner light

According to Luther, the gulf between God and humans could only be bridged by

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? devotio moderna

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