John Calvin - Quiz
John Calvin
  • 1. Where was John Calvin born?
A) Germany
B) Italy
C) England
D) France
  • 2. What was John Calvin's profession?
A) Theologian
B) Politician
C) Doctor
D) Artist
  • 3. In what century did John Calvin live?
A) 14th
B) 20th
C) 18th
D) 16th
  • 4. What major work is John Calvin known for?
A) Institutes of the Christian Religion
B) The Prince
C) The Canterbury Tales
D) Summa Theologica
  • 5. John Calvin's theology had a significant influence on the development of which country?
A) China
B) Russia
C) Scotland
D) Spain
  • 6. John Calvin believed in the doctrine of ____, which teaches that God has foreordained everything that will happen.
A) Salvation by Works
B) Original Sin
C) Free Will
D) Predestination
  • 7. Which of the following is NOT one of Calvin's famous doctrines?
A) Total Depravity
B) Transubstantiation
C) Irresistible Grace
D) Predestination
  • 8. Calvin's teachings emphasized the authority of _____ above all.
A) Tradition
B) Scripture
C) Reason
D) The Pope
  • 9. Which city did John Calvin make the center of his theological work?
A) Berlin
B) Rome
C) London
D) Geneva
  • 10. Calvinism is named after John Calvin and is a major branch of which religion?
A) Christianity
B) Islam
C) Buddhism
D) Hinduism
  • 11. What university did John Calvin attend before his conversion to Protestantism?
A) Yale University
B) University of Paris
C) Heidelberg University
D) Oxford University
  • 12. What was John Calvin's original profession before becoming a theologian?
A) Humanist lawyer
B) University professor
C) Bishop
D) Catholic priest
  • 13. In which city did John Calvin first publish the Institutes of the Christian Religion?
A) Geneva
B) Paris
C) Basel, Switzerland
D) Orléans
  • 14. Who recruited John Calvin to join the Reformation in Geneva in 1536?
A) Philipp Melanchthon
B) Martin Bucer
C) William Farel
D) Heinrich Bullinger
  • 15. Which influential family helped John Calvin attend the Collège de la Marche in Paris?
A) The Montmors
B) The Francs
C) The Cordiers
D) The Cauvins
  • 16. What was the main subject of John Calvin's first published book?
A) Commentary on the Book of Psalms
B) Confessional documents
C) A commentary on Seneca's De Clementia
D) Institutes of the Christian Religion
  • 17. Which city did John Calvin move to after being expelled from Geneva?
A) Basel
B) Paris
C) Strasbourg
D) Orléans
  • 18. Who was the Spanish individual denounced by Calvin and executed for heresy in Geneva?
A) Johannes Oecolampadius
B) Nicolas Cop
C) Michael Servetus
D) Andreas Alciati
  • 19. Which theological tradition heavily influenced Calvinist doctrines?
A) Arian
B) Gnostic
C) Pelagian
D) Augustinian
  • 20. In which year did John Calvin return to Geneva to lead the church?
A) 1550
B) 1536
C) 1535
D) 1541
  • 21. What was John Calvin's birth name?
A) Mathurin Cordier
B) Jehan Cauvin
C) Jean Le Franc
D) Gérard Calvin
  • 22. What was the name of John Calvin's mother?
A) Jeanne le Franc
B) Mathurin Cordier
C) Nicolas Colladon
D) Théodore de Bèze
  • 23. What was the main reason Gérard Cauvin enrolled his son in law studies?
A) To earn more money than as a priest
B) To follow family tradition
C) Due to religious conviction
D) Because of academic interest
  • 24. Which city did John Calvin flee to after the Affair of the Placards?
A) Strasbourg
B) Basel
C) Paris
D) Geneva
  • 25. In what year did John Calvin publish the first edition of 'Institutio Christianae Religionis'?
A) 1536
B) 1550
C) 1545
D) 1529
  • 26. What title was Calvin eventually given when he started his work in Geneva?
A) Pastor
B) Bishop
C) Reader
D) Deacon
  • 27. In which city did Calvin participate in a disputation to bring it into the Protestant camp?
A) Basel
B) Geneva
C) Lausanne
D) Strasbourg
  • 28. What role was Calvin selected for in 1537, despite not receiving any pastoral consecration?
A) Bishop
B) Pastor
C) Reader
D) Deacon
  • 29. On what date did Farel and Calvin present their Articles on the Organisation of the Church to the Geneva city council?
A) 25 December 1535
B) 16 January 1537
C) 1 March 1538
D) 26 November 1536
  • 30. Which city proposed introducing uniformity in church ceremonies, leading to a quarrel with Calvin and Farel?
A) Bern
B) Zurich
C) Paris
D) Strasbourg
  • 31. Who invited Calvin to lead a church of French refugees in Strasbourg?
A) William Farel
B) Princess Renée of France
C) The Geneva city council
D) Martin Bucer and Wolfgang Capito
  • 32. By what month and year did Calvin take up his new position in Strasbourg?
A) December 1539
B) January 1537
C) September 1538
D) March 1536
  • 33. How many members did John Calvin minister to in Strasbourg?
A) 400–500 members
B) 750 members
C) 1000 members
D) 200 members
  • 34. What was the frequency of communion during Calvin's ministry in Strasbourg?
A) Annually
B) Monthly
C) Daily
D) Weekly
  • 35. What doctrine did Justus Velsius defend against Calvin during their disputation?
A) Eucharistic union
B) Arianism
C) Predestination
D) Free will
  • 36. How many sermons did Calvin deliver on Deuteronomy between March 1555 and July 1556?
A) One hundred
B) Two hundred
C) Fifty
D) Three hundred
  • 37. What did the libertines realize about their power over Calvin?
A) They could curb his authority, but not banish him.
B) They had enough power to completely remove him from Geneva.
C) They decided to fully support Calvin instead.
D) They were powerless against Calvin's influence.
  • 38. What was the council's decision regarding Calvin's request to resign?
A) They postponed the decision indefinitely.
B) They agreed but required a public statement first.
C) They granted him immediate resignation.
D) His request was refused.
  • 39. Where was Calvin buried?
A) In his hometown with full honors.
B) At St. Pierre Church with a grand ceremony.
C) In Geneva's main cathedral.
D) In an unmarked grave in the Cimetière des Rois.
  • 40. Who was assigned to record all of Calvin's sermons starting in 1549?
A) Louis Bourgeois
B) Clément Marot
C) T. H. L. Parker
D) Denis Raguenier
  • 41. Who asked the council for permission to take communion after being excommunicated?
A) John Calvin
B) Perrin
C) Henri Aulbert
D) Philibert Berthelier
  • 42. How many chapters did the second edition of the Institutes have?
A) Six chapters
B) Seventeen chapters
C) Ten chapters
D) Twenty-five chapters
  • 43. What did John Calvin actively participate in between the Lutheran and Reformed branches?
A) Polemics
B) Peace negotiations
C) Military alliances
D) Financial support
  • 44. Who was initially consulted by the Geneva council before asking Calvin to respond to Cardinal Sadoleto?
A) Ulrich Zwingli
B) Pierre Viret
C) John Knox
D) Martin Luther
  • 45. Who attacked Calvin's doctrine of predestination in 1551?
A) Jérôme-Hermès Bolsec
B) Pierre Caroli
C) Justus Velsius
D) Joachim Westphal
  • 46. What was the council's response when Perrin was elected first syndic in February 1552?
A) Perrin immediately resigned from his position.
B) Calvin's influence increased significantly.
C) The council disbanded due to internal conflicts.
D) Calvin's authority appeared at its lowest point.
  • 47. Who broke with Calvin after the execution of Servetus?
A) Justus Velsius
B) Sebastian Castellio
C) Jérôme-Hermès Bolsec
D) Joachim Westphal
  • 48. Who confessed to writing a threatening letter found at St. Pierre Cathedral?
A) François Favre
B) Pierre Ameaux
C) Ami Perrin
D) Jacques Gruet
  • 49. How many students were there in the grammar school within five years?
A) 500 students
B) 800 students
C) 300 students
D) 1,200 students
  • 50. Which city did Calvin advise French-speaking refugees to integrate with local Lutheran churches?
A) Leiden, Netherlands
B) Heidelberg, Germany
C) Geneva, Switzerland
D) Wesel, Germany
  • 51. When did the school open in Geneva?
A) 5 June 1559
B) 25 March 1558
C) December 1557
D) January 1560
  • 52. What was the condition Calvin set for marrying a young woman from a noble family?
A) She would convert to his faith
B) She would learn French
C) She would give up her noble title
D) She would move to Strasbourg
  • 53. Which camp did John Calvin's opinion on the eucharist place him in?
A) Luther's camp
B) Catholic camp
C) An independent stance
D) Zwingli's camp
  • 54. Who developed a theory about the rise of capitalism influenced by Calvinism?
A) Martin Luther.
B) Ulrich Zwingli.
C) John Knox.
D) Max Weber.
  • 55. In which territory did reformed ideas spread without forced conversion by the Ottoman Empire?
A) England
B) Hungary
C) France
D) Germany
  • 56. What derogatory term did Pierre Ameaux use against John Calvin?
A) "Lutheran"
B) "Huguenot"
C) "Picard"
D) "Papist"
  • 57. What was the title of Michael Servetus's book published in 1553?
A) Two Books of Dialogues on the Trinity
B) Christianismi Restitutio
C) The Institutes of the Christian Religion
D) Dialogorum de Trinitate libri duo
  • 58. Which confession was adopted as the official confession of Hungarian Calvinists?
A) Heidelberg Catechism
B) Augsburg Confession
C) Second Helvetic Confession
D) Belgic Confession
  • 59. In which city did the Reformed Constitutional Synod take place in 1567?
A) Geneva
B) Heidelberg
C) Wesel
D) Debrecen
  • 60. Who became the rector of the institute in Geneva?
A) Mathurin Cordier
B) Emmanuel Tremellius
C) John Knox
D) Theodore Beza
  • 61. What did Calvin's treatise, Vera Christianae pacificationis et Ecclesiae reformandae ratio (1549), describe?
A) A refutation of the Council of Trent decrees
B) A defense of soul sleep
C) An open letter to Pope Paul III
D) The doctrines that should be upheld, including justification by faith.
  • 62. On which date do Lutheran churches commemorate John Calvin?
A) 31 October
B) 26 May
C) 25 December
D) 5 November
  • 63. In what year did Joachim Westphal condemn Calvin and Zwingli as heretics?
A) 1554
B) 1536
C) 1555
D) 1552
  • 64. What pseudonym did John Calvin use when corresponding with Servetus?
A) Michael de Villeneuve
B) Charles d'Espeville
C) Guillaume de Trie
D) Jean Frellon
  • 65. In which country did Calvin's ideas reach the French-speaking provinces?
A) Germany
B) Scotland
C) Netherlands
D) England
  • 66. What was the title of Calvin's open letter to Charles V in 1543?
A) Supplex exhortatio ad Caesarem
B) Acta synodi Tridentinae cum Antidoto
C) Responsio ad Sadoletum
D) Admonitio paterna Pauli III
  • 67. What did Voltaire claim was forbidden by the religion of Calvin, Luther, and Zwingli in Geneva?
A) Books
B) Food
C) Musical instruments
D) Clothing
  • 68. How many books are in the final edition of 'Institutes of the Christian Religion'?
A) Six
B) Three
C) Four
D) Five
  • 69. What was the most severe penalty that the Consistoire could originally mete out?
A) Excommunication
B) Imprisonment
C) Fines
D) Banishment
  • 70. During his final years, how was John Calvin's authority perceived?
A) Heavily challenged
B) Under scrutiny by the Catholic Church
C) Practically uncontested
D) Limited to Geneva
  • 71. How did Martin Luther initially view John Calvin?
A) With mutual respect
B) With hostility
C) As a rival
D) Indifferently
  • 72. What document became the confessional standard for Presbyterians in the English-speaking world?
A) Westminster Confession
B) Heidelberg Catechism
C) Augsburg Confession
D) Belgic Confession
  • 73. In which year was the second edition of the Institutes published?
A) 1540
B) 1539
C) 1541
D) 1538
  • 74. What was the most famous hymn composed by Louis Bourgeois in Geneva?
A) A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
B) Jerusalem
C) Amazing Grace
D) The Old Hundredth
  • 75. Who held a public disputation with Calvin in Frankfurt in 1556?
A) Pierre Caroli
B) Jérôme-Hermès Bolsec
C) Joachim Westphal
D) Justus Velsius
  • 76. When did Idelette, Calvin's wife, die?
A) 19 March 1543
B) 28 July 1542
C) October 1542
D) 29 March 1549
  • 77. What did Ami Perrin do after receiving a letter from Calvin?
A) He wrote a public apology.
B) He organized a counter-protest.
C) He fled Geneva to avoid confrontation.
D) He appeared before the Consistory.
  • 78. What was the date when Calvin's son Jacques was born?
A) 19 March 1543
B) 29 March 1549
C) October 1542
D) 28 July 1542
  • 79. Who published La Forme des Prières et Chants Ecclésiastiques in Geneva?
A) Martin Luther
B) Louis Bourgeois
C) Clément Marot
D) John Calvin
  • 80. What does Calvin describe scripture as in terms of its authority?
A) Autopiston or self-authenticating
B) Dependent on church tradition
C) Subject to human interpretation
D) A historical document
  • 81. Which confession was formulated in the Electorate of the Palatinate?
A) Belgic Confession
B) Heidelberg Catechism
C) Augsburg Confession
D) Second Helvetic Confession
  • 82. What event marked the beginning of the libertines' downfall?
A) The burning of a house in May 1555
B) The trial of Servetus
C) The intervention by Henri Aulbert
D) The February 1555 elections
  • 83. Who first identified Calvin's ideas as 'Calvinism'?
A) Joachim Westphal
B) Martin Luther
C) Philip Melanchthon
D) John Knox
  • 84. Which confession was adopted as a confessional standard in the first synod of the Dutch Reformed Church?
A) Belgic Confession
B) Second Helvetic Confession
C) Augsburg Confession
D) Westminster Confession
  • 85. Who owned John Calvin's house and furniture during his time in Geneva?
A) John Calvin himself
B) Idelette
C) The council
D) Antoine's family
  • 86. Which psalmist became a refugee in Geneva and contributed nineteen more psalms?
A) Martin Bucer
B) Clément Marot
C) Louis Bourgeois
D) John Calvin
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