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Protestant Reformation Overview Guide

The document is a study guide for the Protestant Reformation that provides questions about key figures, events, doctrines, and terms of the Reformation period. It asks about Martin Luther's role in sparking the Reformation in Germany through writing the 95 Theses and opposing church abuses like indulgences, and how the Pope and Holy Roman Emperor responded by trying to suppress Luther. It also asks about other reformers like John Calvin, Ulrich Zwingli, and events that shaped Protestantism in Germany and Switzerland in the 1500s.

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Protestant Reformation Overview Guide

The document is a study guide for the Protestant Reformation that provides questions about key figures, events, doctrines, and terms of the Reformation period. It asks about Martin Luther's role in sparking the Reformation in Germany through writing the 95 Theses and opposing church abuses like indulgences, and how the Pope and Holy Roman Emperor responded by trying to suppress Luther. It also asks about other reformers like John Calvin, Ulrich Zwingli, and events that shaped Protestantism in Germany and Switzerland in the 1500s.

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Protestant Reformation Study Guide

1. What was the Protestant Reformation?


2. List 3-4 of the Church Abuses?
3. Pope Leo X was actually part of what famous Renaissance family
4. Where did Catholics
5. What happen to some of the early Reformers like Jan Hus?
6. Explain how Martin Luther was important to the reformation in Germany?
7. What document did Martin Luther write?
8. Name 2 things the church was doing that Luther did not like?
9. Where do Christians believe that the dead go before heaven?
10. How did the Pope and King Charles V respond to Martin Luther?
11. What was Luthers main goal?
12. How did Luther feel about the Peasant Revolt?
13. How did Luthers job influence his position on the revolt?
14. After the Peace of Augsburg, what two religions did Germanys North and South split into?
15. What did John Calvin preach?
16. Calvinists split the world into what two groups of people?
17. What was the Swiss state that was set up with a theocracy?
18. Ulrich Zwingli was from what country?
19. Define the following terms.
a. Protestant Reformation
b. Indulgences
c. Purgatory
d. Excommunicated
e. Diet
f. Clergy
g. Peasant
h. 95 Theses
i. John Calvin
j. John Wycliffe
k. Jan Hus
l. Martin Luther
m. Ulrich Zwingli
n. Charles V
o. Pope Leo X

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