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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. At what age does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer completed his second postdoctoral thesis?
(a) 31
(b) 33
(c) 23
(d) 27

2. How does Metaxas indicate Deutsche Hilfsverein affected Bonhoeffer?
(a) He learned how Germany was influencing the governments and cultures of other countries.
(b) He saw the terrible nature of Nazi anti-semitism.
(c) It helped him with the realization of how his German heritage would direct his life.
(d) He saw how people whose businesses failed and those who were caught in poverty or crime lived.

3. How many children does Metaxas claim came to Bonhoeffer's first Sunday school class in Barcelona?
(a) 7.
(b) 12.
(c) 15.
(d) One.

4. While Bonhoeffer was in London, who does Metaxas identify as the church leader who became his most important contact in the ecumenical movement?
(a) George Bell.
(b) Karl Barth.
(c) Erwin Sutz.
(d) Franz Hildebrandt.

5. What does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer saw would destroy Germany after the defeat of France?
(a) He saw that now that Germans were turning back history, Germans would be taken by jealousy for each other.
(b) He saw that Hitler would be able to lead them to their own destruction.
(c) He saw that Germany would be destroyed by success.
(d) He saw that they had become mindlessly controlled by the Nazi view for Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what did Metaxas credit much of Luther's bitterness toward the Jews and others at the end of his life?

2. What were the two reasons Metaxas cites that Bonhoeffer decided to lead two German congregations in London?

3. How did Bonhoeffer characterize German emigres in Barcelona, according to a quote used by Metaxas?

4. What choice did Bonhoeffer explain that the German church faced in a letter to Bishop Ammundsen, cited by Metaxas, regarding the ecumenical conference in Fano?

5. What observation on prayer, cited by Metaxas, that Bonhoeffer made after observing prostitutes attending a Catholic Mass at Sacre Coeur?

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