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

2. How did Germans consider the Weimar Republic, according to Metaxas?
(a) As preferable to Bolshevism.
(b) As a logical extension from the days of the Kaiser who ruled over the united Germanic tribes.
(c) As an unpleasant political has forced on them by their enemies...who wanted Germany to be weak anyway.
(d) As just another political arrangement designed to empower the wealthy.

3. 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?
(a) 4. Bethge said that Bonhoeffer told him that God and instructed him how to kill Hitler.
(b) Bethge explained that as the Hitler regime became more murderous, mere confession of beliefs with out action essentially became complicity with the murders.
(c) 3. Bethge said that Bonhoeffer knew that his role in the assassination attempt was a sin that fell outside of his Christian faith.
(d) Metaxas showed that Bonhoeffer's fate was to eliminate Hitler, the cause of war, or accept a position in the military in which he would be involved in eliminate people with whom he had no disagreement.

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

5. What were the two reasons Metaxas cites that Bonhoeffer decided to lead two German congregations in London?
(a) To participate in honest "parish work" and to separate from the church struggles in Germany to gain perspective on the bigger picture.
(b) To practically apply what he had learned of ministry and to prepare to become a German ex-patriot as the Nazis continued to absorb power.
(c) To minister freely without Nazi intrusions and to restore his energy for challenges in Germany that he knew were to come.
(d) To inform England of the turmoil coming to Germany and to safely lead a church insurrection from outside of Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. While Bonhoeffer was in London, who does Metaxas identify as the church leader who became his most important contact in the ecumenical movement?

2. What does Metaxas report to be Bonhoeffer's negotiating advantage during his time leading two congregations in London?

3. To what did Bonhoeffer compare a crowd at a bullfight, according to Metaxas?

4. How had Bonhoeffer's relationships outside of Germany affect his view of the church, according to Metaxas?

5. After Bonhoeffer announced he would be willing to personally kill Hitler, why does Metaxas claim he would have to resign from the Confessing Church?

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