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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26 and 27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 creationists and evolutionists.
(d) A battle between Catholics and Protestants.

2. 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 and Stalin agreed to the Nonaggression Pact.
(c) Reinhold Krause had made a defamatory diatribe against German Jews during a celebration at the Berlin Sportpalast.
(d) Hitler was attempting to prove that he was someone who could be trusted in the international community.

3. How did Germans consider the Weimar Republic, according to Metaxas?
(a) As an unpleasant political has forced on them by their enemies...who wanted Germany to be weak anyway.
(b) As preferable to Bolshevism.
(c) As just another political arrangement designed to empower the wealthy.
(d) As a logical extension from the days of the Kaiser who ruled over the united Germanic tribes.

4. How did Metaxas define the Aryan Paragraph?
(a) It was a paragraph in a document put out by the Ministry of Health that declared all but the Aryan race was inferior and disease ridden.
(b) The true German race is defined by the Aryan ideal that all government employees will be racially pure.
(c) It was a paragraph within the Enabling Acts that forbid anyone but Aryans from working in government.
(d) Government employees must be of "Aryan" stock; anyone of Jewish descent would lose his job.

5. Why does Metaxas identify Bethge as an important figure for Bonhoeffer's legacy?
(a) Bethge would preserve many of Bonhoeffer's writings and distribute them through the world.
(b) Bonhoeffer would confide in Bethge about some of his bouts with depression.
(c) Bethge would keep very close contact with Bonhoeffer during his time in prison.
(d) Bethge would pick up Bonhoeffer's ministry after he was sent to prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what did Bonhoeffer compare a crowd at a bullfight, according to Metaxas?

2. To what did Metaxas credit much of Luther's bitterness toward the Jews and others at the end of his life?

3. How did Bonhoeffer finally propose to Maria, according to Metaxas?

4. What were the three conclusions that Bonhoeffer announced in his address, "The Church and the Jewish Question", in rebuttal to the "Aryan Paragraph"?

5. 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?

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