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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. Why does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer became a soldier?
(a) Because he felt an obligation to offer his service to the benefit of the German Empire.
(b) Because military service was expected by his strict father.
(c) Because he became empathetic with a nationalist movement that identified the Treaty of Versailles as the cause of Germany's economic and social problems.
(d) Because he was conscripted into militia service as the limits placed on the German military by the Treaty of Versailles were insufficient to protect Germany from enemies and insurrections.

2. What does Metaxas claim to be the priority of the congregations that Bonhoeffer led in London?
(a) To help in opposing Nazi efforts to interfere with the mission of the church.
(b) To influence other countries that the Nazi government was trustworthy.
(c) Maintain cultural connections with the homeland.
(d) To support the German Christians abroad.

3. To what did Metaxas credit much of Luther's bitterness toward the Jews and others at the end of his life?
(a) A hard-line interpretation of the bible.
(b) A legalistic view of sin.
(c) An increasing exclusionary view of grace.
(d) A series of illnesses and generally declining health.

4. What does Metaxas claim to have complicated relations between England and Germany while Bonhoeffer was in London?
(a) The German Christians had begun purging Jewish Christians from protestant activities.
(b) Hitler was attempting to prove that he was someone who could be trusted in the international community.
(c) Hitler and Stalin agreed to the Nonaggression Pact.
(d) Reinhold Krause had made a defamatory diatribe against German Jews during a celebration at the Berlin Sportpalast.

5. Who does Metaxas report to be the professor who became the greatest influence over Bonhoeffer's life?
(a) Karl Barth.
(b) Karl Holl.
(c) Adolf Deissman.
(d) Adolf von Harnack.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer kept informed of the turmoil involving the German church?

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

3. At what age does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer completed his second postdoctoral thesis?

4. Who was the theologian that Metaxas reports Bonhoeffer lobbied to have placed in the University of Berlin that the Nazis rejected?

5. 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?

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