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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. What quote of Bonhoeffer's friend, Franz Hildebrandt, does Metaxas use to show the intellectual demands Bonhoeffer placed on those who were close to him.
(a) "Dietrich would expect you to go to plays, operas, and museums with him and engage in lengthy conversations as to the significance of whatever was put before us."
(b) "You could not be a friend of Dietrich's if you did not argue with him."
(c) "Dietrich would ask for explanations and proofs of everything that came out of your mouth."
(d) "He would know the answer to every question he asked you and put you under a constant test of your understanding of the Bible and the world."

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

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

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

5. What quote does Metaxas pull from a sermon that Bonhoeffer gave in Barcelona while his parents were visiting?
(a) " I fear that Christians who venture to stand on earth on only one leg will stand in heaven on only one leg too."
(b) "The essence of Christianity is not about religion at all, but about the person of Christ."
(c) "[I]f you want to find eternity, you must serve the times."
(d) "Christ has given scarcely any ethical prescriptions that wer not to be found already with the contemporary Jewish rabbis or in pagan literature."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Metaxas identify as the difference between the theological debate in the U.S. in the 1930's and those in which Bonhoeffer participated as he was earning his doctorate degrees?

3. How did Bonhoeffer deal with the conduct of the students in Wedding?

4. According to Metaxas, upon what basis were Jews persecuted in Nazi Germany?

5. What was the question that Metaxas claims Jean Lassere put to Bonhoeffer that led him to become involved in the ecumenical movement?

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