How Can I Be Saved

Question 1

In ________—the same summer that an old and discouraged Christopher Columbus sat down to write his last will

Answer 1

1505

Question 2

Saxony, was one of the 150 small German states that were a part of the __________.

Answer 2

Holy Roman Empire

Question 3

The young student might have passed what, travelling on the dusty road in Saxony?

Answer 3

The young student might have passed peasants in a field cutting hay with their scythes or perhaps a couple of girls in front of a hut playing knucklebones.

Question 4

What Knocked the young student to the ground?

Answer 4

A bolt of lighting struck close to him.

Question 5

What was the name of the young student?

Answer 5

Martin Luther.

Question 6

What did Luther believe in?

Answer 6

Luther believed that eternal life was promised to those who followed Jesus, and that the agony of hell awaited those who were not saved.

Question 7

What did Baptism do according to the Catholic Church?

Answer 7

Baptism washed away a child’s sins in case he or she should die young.

Question 8

What did the castle church claim to have?

Answer 8

The castle church proudly claimed to have four hairs from the head of Mary, mother of Christ; a wisp of straw from the cradle in which the baby Jesus once lay; and over nineteen thousand pieces of bone from various saints.

Question 9

____________, a prince who had given up his worldly wealth to walk the streets begging—“mere bone and skin,” Luther recalled.

Answer 9

William of Anhalt

Question 10

What problem did Luther have?

Answer 10

Even after giving up the comforts of the world, he felt unworthy in God’s eyes.

Question 11

What was a Christian saved by?

Answer 11

A Christian was saved by faith alone—the faith that Jesus had lived a perfect life and had died for the sins of all people.

Question 12

Luther put the ________ at the center of his religion.

Answer 12

Luther put the Bible at the center of his religion.

Question 13

In ________ Luther nailed a paper listing his ideas to the door of the castle church.

Answer 13

In 1517.

Question 14

How many ideas did Luther have on the paper he nailed to the door of the castle church.

Answer 14

These ninety-five theses marked the start of a reform movement that became known as the Protestant Reformation.

Question 15

One of the most important Reformation leaders was the French minister __________.

Answer 15

John Calvin.

Question 16

He gathered his followers in the city of ______________.

Answer 16

Geneva in the Alps.

Question 17

What is a holy commonwealth?

Answer 17

Government run on Protestant Principles.

Question 18

What were some of the city laws in Geneva?

Answer 18

You could be fined for passing tobacco to another worshiper or making a noise in church, you could not name your child after Catholic saints because Protestants didn’t believe that he earthly church had the power to decide who was a saint.

Question 19

Consider Luther’s belief that the ___________ was the only guide to salvation.

Answer 19

Consider Luther’s belief that the Bible was the only guide to salvation.

Question 20

What language did Luther translate the Bible into?

Answer 20

German.

Question 21

Two big ideas:___________

Answer 21

judge for yourself and build a holy commonwealth.

Question 22

What did the Catholic officials demand Luther to do?

Answer 22

To renounce his beliefs.

Question 23

“A single monk who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong,” insisted young Charles V, the ________________.

Answer 23

“A single monk who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong,” insisted young Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor.

Question 24

What happened to someone who was convicted of being a heretic (teaching false religious ideas)?

Answer 24

They were burned at the stake. The punishment was fierce, excruciatingly painful, and every bit as terrifying as having one’s heart cut out with an obsidian knife.

Question 25

How was the religion divided in a kingdom or monarch in Europe?

Answer 25

Half the people in a kingdom became Protestant and half remained Catholic.

Question 26

What happened to subjects who disagreed either had to keep silent and attend the established church or worship secretly?

Answer 26

Risk being arrested, jailed, or burned at the stake.

Question 27

Which nations remained Catholic?

Answer 27

Spain, Portugal and Italy remained catholic.

Question 28

Which nations became Protestant?

Answer 28

England, Scotland and the Netherlands became Protestant.

Question 29

What did the new set of adventures discover in the mountains of Mexico and South America.

Answer 29

They discovered huge deposits of silver.

Question 30

The biggest mines were at _________, thirteen thousand feet above sea level in the Andes, where the thin air made breathing difficult

Answer 30

Potosi.

Question 31

How many people worked in the Mines at Potosi 1600?

Answer 31

More than 150,000 people worked there.

Question 32

What were the Indians forced to do?

Answer 32

The Indians were forced to toil in deep tunnels where the dust brought sickness and death from black lung disease.

Question 33

What did the Indians name for the place mean?

Answer 33

The Indians name for the place meant “The mountain that eats people”.

Question 34

Where was the silver shipped to when it was refined?

Answer 34

The silver was shipped to Spain, the Philippines and China.

Question 35

“No hay alla de oro,” it read: “________________.”

Answer 35

“No hay alla de oro,” it read: “There is no gold there.”

Question 36

The men who did are sometimes called ___________—adventurers prowling the oceans for fame and glory.

Answer 36

Sea Dogs

Question 37

__________, plundered Spanish treasure in the Caribbean and, even more boldly, sailed around South America into the Pacific Ocean, which the Spanish were used to having all to themselves.

Answer 37

Francis Drake, plundered Spanish treasure in the Caribbean and, even more boldly, sailed around South America into the Pacific Ocean, which the Spanish were used to having all to themselves.

Question 38

Who did Queen Elizabeth Knight for their service?

Answer 38

Francis Drake

Question 39

in __________, Drake’s friend ____________ sponsored an expedition that landed off the coast of present-day North Carolina at Roanoke Island.

Answer 39

in 1585, Drake’s friend Walter Raleigh sponsored an expedition that landed off the coast of present-day North Carolina at Roanoke Island.

Question 40

The Indians at Roanoke, reports said, were _____________.

Answer 40

The Indians at Roanoke, reports said, were “most gentle, loving, and faithful

Question 41

____________, liked to show how tough he was: after drinking three or four glasses of wine, he would “take the glasses between his teeth, and crush them into pieces, and swallow them down, so that oftentimes the blood ran out of his mouth.

Answer 41

Sir Richard Grenville

Question 42

When did Spain send its navy to invade England?

Answer 42

In 1588 Spain had sent its vast navy, the Armada, to invade England.

Question 43

What did the relief mission find when they got to Roanoke?

Answer 43

“But by the time a relief mission returned to Roanoke, it found only ruins, a few pieces of rusting armor, and the word “Croatoan” carved on a tree.”

Question 44

What was curved on a tree when the relief team got to Roanoke?

Answer 44

The word “Croatoan”