1. What person is given credit for starting the Protestant Reformation?
Answer: Martin Luther

2. What does the following quote refer to?
"As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs."
Answer: The selling of indulgences

3. What invention made the Protestant Reformation possible?
Answer: the printing press

4. Henry VIII turned against the Catholic Church when he requested and was denied a divorce from his wife to marry another woman. Name these two women.
Answer: Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn

5. Which modern religious group common in many parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Kansas descends from the Anabaptists?
Answer: Mennonites, Amish


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