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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 23, 24 and 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the one area in which Bonhoeffer's father saw a relationship with the work of his son, according to a letter cited by Metaxas?
(a) He had to depend on what was taught him as a child to deal with the problems as an adult.
(b) He had to depend on hard reason rather than emotions to get him through the challenges.
(c) He learned that he could only deal with problems if he separated himself emotionally from them.
(d) He had discovered that living relationships to human beings and the possibility of meaning something to them was more important than the professional obligations.

2. What observation on prayer, cited by Metaxas, that Bonhoeffer made after observing prostitutes attending a Catholic Mass at Sacre Coeur?
(a) "When our will whole heartedly enters in the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly."
(b) "Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God...He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work."
(c) "It's much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity."
(d) "The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day."

3. What former theological nemesis of Bonhoeffer's does Metaxas report to have joined a conspiracy against Hitler?
(a) Theodor Heckel.
(b) Hans Schonfeld.
(c) George Bell.
(d) Ludwig von Muller

4. What does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer discovered of Spanish professors and contemporary Spanish writers?
(a) They were eager to receive Bonhoeffer's thoughts about ecumenicalism.
(b) They were bitterly anti-clerical.
(c) They showed the same disciplined thought as his father.
(d) They provided an elevated level of conversation.

5. Why did the opponents the group, "German Christians" consider the name to be oxymoronic?
(a) Because many who were joining the group were not German or Christian.
(b) Because most Christians had already left Germany.
(c) Because the group's embrace of heresy violated the definition of being Christian, and many true Germans disagreed with their positions.
(d) Because they were following Adolf Hitler who was neither German or Christian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What threat did Theodor Heckel make against Bonhoeffer to make him stop his attempts to oppose the German church from England?

2. How does Metaxas show how Eberhard Bethge explained how Bonhoeffer could accept the paradox of being a Christian involved in an assassination plot against a head of state?

3. How did the German Pastor's Emergency League respond to Reichsbischof Ludwig Muller's attempt to prevent it from meeting in synod by closing the Berlin Cathedral, according to Metaxas?

4. How many children does Metaxas claim came to Bonhoeffer's first Sunday school class in Barcelona?

5. How did Henry Smithe Lieper explain how Bonhoeffer was different from his pastoral peers in Germany, according to Metaxas?

(see the answer key)

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