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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17, 18 and 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Bonhoeffer first meet Eberhard Bethge, according to Metaxas?
(a) In Berlin upon his return from England.
(b) During a conference with leaders of the Confessing Church.
(c) On the peninsula of Zingst.
(d) During one of the many social engagements at his parents home.

2. What theological battle was being waged when Bonhoeffer arrived in America, according to Metaxas?
(a) A battle between Calvinists and Armenians.
(b) A battle between liberals and fundamentalists.
(c) A battle between Catholics and Protestants.
(d) A battle between creationists and evolutionists.

3. What did Bonhoeffer believe to be the future of theological education in Germany, according to a letter cited by Metaxas?
(a) "The entire education of the younger generation of theologians belongs today in church cloister-like schools, in which pure doctrine, the Sermon on the Mount and worship are taken seriously...."
(b) "Christians will have to seek protection from international ecumenical movements to intercede between authoritarian governments and doctrinal freedom."
(c) "Churches will have to become invisible and protective if they are to teach the Gospel in the future."
(d) "The only hope for teaching any biblical truth is to find areas of compromise with the current regime and willingly take those for the immediate future."

4. To what did Metaxas credit Bonhoeffer's intellectual independence and confidence in contradicting his theology professors?
(a) His desire for cultural and intellectual stimulation.
(b) Growing up with Karl Bonhoeffer who would make him justify all his words.
(c) His experience in Rome.
(d) The experience he had during the German hyper inflation.

5. Who does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer's first love to be?
(a) Grete von Dohnanyi.
(b) Emmi Delbruck.
(c) Elizabeth Zinn.
(d) Maria von Wedemeyer.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Metaxas report a member of Igel described Bonhoeffer?

2. Why does Metaxas identify Bethge as an important figure for Bonhoeffer's legacy?

3. Of the students with whom Bonhoeffer socialized while in New York, which does Metaxas claim had the greatest influence?

4. How does Metaxas explain the Nuremberg laws affected the Jews?

5. According to Metaxas, to what did ideas and beliefs have to relate before Bonhoeffer would consider them worthwhile?

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