How Can I Be Saved?

Question 1

In _____, Christopher Columbus sat down to write his last will.

Answer 1

In 1505, Christopher Columbus sat down to write his last will.

Question 2

Who did Martin Luther believe enteral life was for?

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Where did Luther go to to live?

Answer 3

Wittenberg.

Question 4

In what year did Luther nail a paper listing his ideas to the door of the castle church?

Answer 4

In 1517, Luther nailed a paper listing his ideas to the door of the castle church

Question 5

Who was one of the most important Reformation leaders ?

Answer 5

One of the most important Reformation leaders was the French minister John Calvin.

Question 6

What is the difference between Martin Luther and John Calvin?

Answer 6

Martin Luther was down-to-earth, friendly,and emotional.
John Calvin was cool and logical -a brilliant thinker.

Question 7

What happens if you pass out tobacco to another worshiper or make a noise in church?

Answer 7

You could be finned for passing out tobacco to another worshiper or making a noise in church.

Question 8

In Geneva’s laws why could you not name your child after Catholic saints?

Answer 8

You could not name your child after catholic saints because Protestants didn’t believe that the earthly church had the power to decide who was a saint.

Question 9

What were Calvin’s laws meant to do?

Answer 9

Calvin’s strict laws were meant to make an imperfect world better.

Question 10

What did Luther want everybody to do?

Answer 10

Luther wanted everybody to read the bible.

Question 11

What did Luther do to the Bible so that everyone has a chance to read it?

Answer 11

Luther translated the Bible into German.

Question 12

What were the two big ideas?

Answer 12

Judge for yourself and build a holy commonwealth.

Question 13

Who was the Holy Roman Emperor?

Answer 13

Charles V, was the Roman Emperor.

Question 14

Was Charles able to carry out his vow?

Answer 14

Fortunately for Luther, Charles was never able to carry out his vow.

Question 15

What does sea dog mean?

Answer 15

Sea dog is simply a polite way of saying pirate.

Question 16

What did Calvin dream of?

Answer 16

Calvin dreamed of a time when “the elect”—believers whom God had saved—would govern the world in peace.

Question 17

Who were “the elects”?

Answer 17

“the elect”—believers whom God had saved—

Question 18

What happened during the Middle Ages?

Answer 18

During the Middle Ages, popes and church councils acted as the final judges of the Bible’s meaning—not ordinary people.

Question 19

Did Luther accept when the Catholic officials demanded that he should renounce his beliefs?

Answer 19

When Catholic officials demanded that Luther renounce his beliefs, he refused.

Question 20

What does Luther insist he was bound to do?

Answer 20

He insisted that he was bound “to defend the truth with my blood and death.”

Question 21

In Europe, what happened when someone convicted of being a heretic?

Answer 21

In Europe, someone convicted of being a heretic—teaching false religious ideas—was burned at the stake.

Question 22

What was the punishment when if someone convicted of being a heretic?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

What are the nations that remain strongly Catholic?

Answer 23

Spain, Portugal, and Italy, remained strongly Catholic.

Question 24

What nations became Protestants?

Answer 24

England, Scot.and, and the Netherlands, became Protestant

Question 25

What happened when the Gold and jewels from Mexico ran out?

Answer 25

When the gold and jewels from the Mexica ran out, a new set of adventurers discovered huge deposits of silver in the mountains of Mexico and South America.

Question 26

Where were the biggest mines located?

Answer 26

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

Question 27

What were the Indians forced to do?

Answer 27

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

Question 28

What did the Indians name for the place mean?

Answer 28

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

Question 29

How many tons of silver were hauled out in carts, refined in furnaces, and shipped to Spain as well as to the Philippines and China?

Answer 29

Thirty Thousand.

Question 30

What nations was the silver shipped to?

Answer 30

Spain, Philippines and China.

Question 31

What does “No hay alla de oro” stand for?

Answer 31

“There is no gold there.”

Question 32

What did the English Protestants chase after?

Answer 32

English Protestants also chased after Spanish treasure.

Question 33

What did Francis Drake do?

Answer 33

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 34

What did Queen Elizabeth do to Francis Drake?

Answer 34

Queen Elizabeth knighted him for his service and took half of the booty he brought back.

Question 35

Who is Francis Drakes’ friend?

Answer 35

Walter Raleigh

Question 36

In 1585, what did Walter Raleigh do?

Answer 36

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

Question 37

When did Walter Raleigh sponsor an expedition?

Answer 37

In 1585.

Question 38

Who is the English commander?

Answer 38

Sir Richard Grenville

Question 39

What did Sir Richard Grenville like to do?

Answer 39

Sir Richard Grenville, 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.”

Question 40

What did Spain do in 1588?

Answer 40

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

Question 41

Which word curved on a tree?

Answer 41

the word “Croatoan” carved on a tree.