1. The Roman Catholic Church held nine 'Church Councils' between 1215 and 1545 to deal with what issue? How to make regional sovereigns contribute more money How to deal with heretics and insurgents against Church authority The selling of Penances and Indulgences to the general population to raise more revenue How to deal with Church corruption

2. Martin Luther is credited as being the person who began the Reformation in the 16th Century by doing what action? Giving a radical sermon in a public square Nailing a list of grievances to a door Writing an article about 'The Bishop of Rome' By publicly denouncing a Papal Bull

3. Where was Luther supposed to stand trial and answer for the action that he perpetrated which in effect began the Reformation? The Imperial Diet of Worms The Diet of Regensburg The Diet of Speyer The Imperial Diet of Augsburg

4. Which of the following people began an independent reform movement that was NOT an offshoot of Lutheranism? Jacobus Arminius John Calvin Huldrych Zwingli John Knox

5. Where was Martin Luther born? Mohra Eisleben Mansfeld Erfurt

6. Before splitting from (well, okay, being excommunicated from..) the Catholic Church, to what monastic Order did Luther belong? Jesuit Augustinian Benedictine Dominican

7. St. Ignatius Loyola, was the founder of what monastic order that fought most tenaciously for Roman Catholicism in debates at the very beginning of the Reformation? Jesuit Dominican Benedictine Cistercian

8. One of the key tenets of Roman Catholicism that Luther rejected was the Doctrine of Transubstatiation. What did this Doctrine mean? That the bread and wine of the Eucharist became the body and blood of Christ That the Holy Trinity could be present as one spiritual entity That the sins of man could be redeemed by the acknowledgment and possession of Papal Indulgences That the Pope was the direct vassal of God, having descended from St. Peter

9. What religious sect broke away from Zwinglism insisting that the principle of scriptural authority should be applied without compromise, unlike most other forms of Protestantism that emerged throughout the Reformation? Presbyterians Anabaptists Puritans Evangelicals

10. What was the Schmalkald League? A league of German Bishops A league of Catholic knights A league of German Towns and Merchants A league of Lutheran Princes

11. What was the name that French Protestants adopted? Templars Huguenots Presbyterians Gallicans

12. What effectively ended the Schmalkald League in 1555? The Peace of Augsburg The Treaty of Ghent The Treaty of Trent The Peace of Passau

13. Who was the Pope when Luther began the split from traditional Roman Catholicism? Pope Leo X Pope Leo VIII Pope Leo IX Pope Leo XI

14. Which king basically used the Reformation as a convenient excuse to marry the way he wanted to? Henry VIII Charles IX Henry IV Francis II

15. Which very influential family was the power behind the throne at the time that the Reformation began gaining ground in France? De' Medici Guise Sforza Hapsburg

16. During the French struggles between Catholicism and Protestantism, what bloody massacre set off a string of small wars? Massacre of St. Bartholomew's day Massacre of Paris Massacre of Vichy Massacre at Vassy

17. After ten years of war following the Massacre in Question 16, the French King's mother attempted to reconcile the Catholics and Protestants by what means? A Truce War with Spain A joust Segregation

18. Following the French King's mother's failed attempt at reconciling France's warring factions, what event sparked the next ferocious round of civil war? An Assassination A Massacre A Failed Assassination A Kidnapping

19. What series of wars erupted in Germany in 1524 and 1525 as the result of Injustice and also the teachings of Luther and Zwingli, that resulted in a angry written treatise by Luther? The Merchant's War The Munich Rebellion The Serf's War The Peasant's War

20. What invention that appeared in Europe shortly before the outset of the Reformation is credited as having played a key role in the spread of Protestantism? Woodcuts Gundpowder Lithographs Printing by movable type