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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. What observation on prayer, cited by Metaxas, that Bonhoeffer made after observing prostitutes attending a Catholic Mass at Sacre Coeur?
(a) "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."
(b) "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."
(c) "When our will whole heartedly enters in the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly."
(d) "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."
2. What momentous historic event does Metaxas note took place two days after Bonhoeffer arrived in Germany, and of which he was ignorant?
(a) The Japanese left the League of nations.
(b) The Nazi Party was elected to the second largest political party in Germany.
(c) His brother got married.
(d) His first love got married.
3. 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.
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?
(a) The German church faced the choice of being free or slave.
(b) The German church faced the choice of being at peace or at war.
(c) The German church faced the choice of defending their faith or compromising it.
(d) The German church faced the choice of either being Christian or National Socialist.
5. What was Bonhoeffer's view of philosophy, according to Metaxas?
(a) Bonhoeffer believed that one could not become a solid philosopher without studying theology.
(b) Bonhoeffer considered philosophy to be man's search for truth apart from God.
(c) Bonhoeffer considered a theologian and philosopher to be the same thing.
(d) Bonhoeffer believed that one could not become a solid theologian without studying philosophy.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the explanation that Metaxas gives for Bonhoeffer's willingness to join the same fraternity his father, Igel, when he attended Berlin University?
2. What does Metaxas report to be Bonhoeffer's negotiating advantage during his time leading two congregations in London?
3. Why does Metaxas claim that the Nazis used Martin Luther's late writings regarding Jews to promote their agenda against the Jews.
4. What statement did Bonhoeffer make in a lecture titled, "The Question of the Boundaries of the Church and Church Union", was criticized by his supporters as being a piece of false doctrine?
5. What does Metaxas claim to have complicated relations between England and Germany while Bonhoeffer was in London?
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