World History 1.2 Quiz

One of the things that Martin Luther fought the Catholic Church over were indulgences. What were indulgences?

• Luxury items given as gifts to the church.

• Mandatory payments to support the local parish priests.

• Payments made to the Catholic Church to do away with sins.

• Doing more than your share of the work.

Prior to becoming a monk, Martin Luther was originally studying to be a lawyer.

• True

• False

After the Protestant Reformation ended, the Catholic Church started its own Counter-Reformation to reform itself.

• True

• False

At the same time that Luther was developing his church, ________ was hard at work in Switzerland trying to reform the church there.

• John Calvin

• John Knox

• Desiderius Erasmus

• Huldreich Sqingli

In the early 1530s, what caused the English King to break from the Catholic Church and form the Church of England?

• He wanted the money and land that the church owned in England.

• He wanted a divorce and to marry Ann Boleyn.

• He was upset over indulgences and wanted the practice stopped.

• He believed in the Divine Right of Kings and wanted to be the absolute ruler.

What was one reason for the start of the Reformation?

• People were tired of having to pay taxes to the king and church.

• People wanted to worship in their native language and not in Latin.

• People began questioning the authority of the Catholic Church.

• People wanted to return to the roots of Christianity.

What Tudor King broke away from the Catholic Church and formed his own church in the early 1500s?

• Edward VI

• King James I

• Henry VIII

• Charles I

Once the Protestant Reformation came to an end, Europe was religiously divided between a _____ and a ______.

• Religious beliefs were basically equally found all over Europe.

• Protestant North and Catholic South

• Catholic North and a Protestant South

• Protestant North and Orthodox South

Read the following passage:

"Any truly repentant Christian has a right to full remission of penalty and guilt, even without indulgence letters."

To which famous historical document/written work does the passage belong?

• Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations

• The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Martin Luther's "95 Theses"

• Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto

Who was responsible for starting the Reformation movement in Europe in the 16th century?

• King Henry VIII

• Martin Luther

• William and Mary of Orange

• Mary Tudor, Catholic Queen of England