Drill 8 · Multiple Choice · Unit 3: Land-Based Empires
AP World History Unit 3 Drill 8 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 3: Land-Based Empires. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
This drill focuses on continuity and change within belief systems during the period c. 1450 to c. 1750, with attention to the Protestant Reformation and its consequences for European religious and political life. Read the passage carefully, then answer all five questions.
Adapted from theses posted by Martin Luther, a German theologian, challenging Catholic Church practices, 1517 CE, with substantial paraphrase.
"The pope has neither the will nor the power to remit any penalties beyond those imposed by his own authority. Christians should be taught that he who gives to the poor, or lends to one in need, does better than he who purchases indulgences. Christians should be taught that the purchase of indulgences is a matter of free choice, not commanded. Christians should be taught that the pope, in granting indulgences, needs and desires their devout prayer more than their money. Away, then, with all those prophets who say to the people of Christ, 'Peace, peace,' where there is no peace. Any true Christian, living or dead, participates in all the blessings of Christ and the Church, and this is granted by God without letters of indulgence."