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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 and 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Metaxas suggest Karl Bonhoeffer met living expenses during the period of hyperinflation caused by the Treaty of Versailles?
(a) By cashing in a life insurance policy.
(b) By taking additional work as a university professor and medical writer.
(c) By selling the family home.
(d) By taking payment in other currencies than the Deutch Mark.

2. Why does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer did not marry his first love?
(a) Because Bonhoeffer's travels around the world kept the relationship from growing.
(b) Because Bonhoeffer would not allow other people to get close to him.
(c) Because she was Jewish.
(d) Because she married another man while he was travelling.

3. Upon what Christian principal was the Barman Declaration that rejected Nazi influence over the German church based, according to Metaxas?
(a) That man is bent toward sin and is in need of redemption.
(b) That God is completely unknowable except by revelation.
(c) That the creation cannot make itself equal to the creator.
(d) That man is always attempting to become God.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the explanation that Metaxas gives for Bonhoeffer's willingness to join the same fraternity his father, Igel, when he attended Berlin University?

3. What does Metaxas claim to have been a positive consequence of Bonhoeffer's Memorial service being held in England?

4. Of what nation does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer to be a citizen?

5. To what conclusion does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer arrived in a journal entry regarding his observations of art and his criticism of art historians?

(see the answer key)

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