Q 01/05

The Reformation is usually dated from which year, when Luther published the Ninety-five Theses?

A) 1517

B) 1521

C) 1534

D) 1555

Answer · why

A) 1517

He was a professor of moral theology at Wittenberg protesting the sale of indulgences.

Q 02/05

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

A) Diet of Augsburg

B) Diet of Worms

C) Diet of Speyer

D) Council of Trent

Answer · why

C) Diet of Speyer

Six princes and fourteen free cities signed; the word stayed a German political term for decades.

Q 03/05

Martin Luther was born in 1483 in which German town?

A) Worms

B) Wittenberg

C) Erfurt

D) Eisleben

Answer · why

D) Eisleben

He also died there in 1546, still formally excommunicated.

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

He entered the monastery at Erfurt in 1505 after a lightning bolt struck near him in a thunderstorm.

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

Indulgences purported to remit the temporal punishment of sins for their purchaser.