Q 01/05

To what did Luther famously nail his Ninety-five Theses?

A) A town hall door

B) A church door

C) A market cross

D) A city gate

Answer · why

B) A church door

A church door: historians still debate whether Luther posted them at all, but he did send copies to the Archbishop of Mainz, who forwarded them to Rom...

Q 02/05

The first people to be called Protestants issued a protest against the edict of which 1529 assembly?

A) Fifth Lateran Council

B) Diet of Nuremberg

C) Diet of Speyer

D) Council of Trent

Answer · why

C) Diet of Speyer

Diet of Speyer: its Catholic majority revoked a 1526 ruling that let each prince decide how to treat Luther's followers, so the reforming rulers lodge...

Q 03/05

Martin Luther later said a 1505 thunderstorm made him abandon his university studies in which subject?

A) Medicine

B) Law

C) Astronomy

D) Music

Answer · why

B) Law

Law: he vowed to become a monk if he survived, and his father, who had wanted a lawyer for a son, was furious.

Q 04/05

Before his break with Rome, Luther belonged to which religious order?

A) Dominican

B) Augustinian

C) Franciscan

D) Benedictine

Answer · why

B) Augustinian

Augustinian: Johann von Staupitz, his superior in the order, pushed the brooding young monk to earn a doctorate and teach theology at Wittenberg.

Q 05/05

Luther's Ninety-five Theses attacked which church practice?

A) Veneration of relics

B) Clerical celibacy

C) Sale of indulgences

D) Latin Mass

Answer · why

C) Sale of indulgences

Sale of indulgences: the friar Johann Tetzel was selling them in towns near Wittenberg to help pay for rebuilding St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.