The Protestant Reformation (1)
Select the correct answer.
1
The most significant way in which the Renaissance influenced the Reformation was in the Renaissance emphasis on?:
encouraging a questioning attitude.
stressing the importance of life after death.
supporting democratic forms of government.
questioning the existence of God.
2
Martin Luther's
Ninety-Five Theses
were a call for?:
religious revolt against the German princes.
reforms within the Roman Catholic Church.
greater Papal authority.
crusades to spread Christianity.
3
The Protestant Reformation represents a turning point in European history because it?:
allowed religious reformers to escape persecution.
standardized all religious writings.
ended religious unity in Western Europe.
forced most of Europe's monarchs to become Protestants.
4
In the early 1500s, many people were criticizing the Church for?:
announcing a new crusade.
hiring Michelangelo to decorate St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome.
being too concerned with worldly power and riches.
refusing to sell indulgences.
5
Luther's doctrine of "justification by faith alone" meant that?:
a person's only hope of salvation was faith in God.
the pope was the final judge on all matters of faith.
only priests could interpret the Bible for Christians.
good works would help people achieve salvation.
6
King Henry VIII of England broke with the pope because he?:
believed in the teachings of Martin Luther.
wanted to appoint St. Thomas More Archbishop of Canterbury.
heard that monasteries were corrupt.
wanted to control the Catholic Church in England.
7
John Calvin believed in predestination, by which he meant that?:
people could be saved if they performed good works.
God had chosen who would be saved.
everyone was destined to be saved.
only Calvinists could be saved.
8
A church practice that Martin Luther challenged was the?:
belief in "justification by faith."
Ninety-Five Theses
.
priesthood of al believers.
granting of indulgences.
9
After Henry VIII broke with the Catholic Church he?:
became head of the Anglican Church.
introduced Calvinism into England.
passed the Edict of Nantes.
persecuted the Huguenots.
10
Printed books prepared the way for a religious revolution in all of the following ways EXCEPT?:
criticizing Church leaders.
encouraging popular piety.
making the Bible more available.
ending literacy.