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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. While Bonhoeffer was in London, who does Metaxas identify as the church leader who became his most important contact in the ecumenical movement?
(a) Franz Hildebrandt.
(b) Karl Barth.
(c) George Bell.
(d) Erwin Sutz.

2. What does Metaxas report to be the commissar order?
(a) A military order that ordered that all Soviet commissars be captured and grilled for torture techniques.
(b) A direct order that all prisoners taken by the German military were to be placed under the direct command of an SS commissar.
(c) A direct order that all German military officers would be assigned a Nazi commissar to direct them in the proper German method of conducting combat.
(d) A military order that all captured Soviet military leaders were to be shot and killed.

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

4. How had the relationship come to be known to Maria's mother, according to Metaxas?
(a) Through Maria's grandmother, Ruth von Kleist-Retzow.
(b) Through Maria's brother, Max von Wedemeyer.
(c) Maria confessed her love for Bonhoeffer directly to her mother.
(d) Bonhoeffer told her through correspondence.

5. Of what nation does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer to be a citizen?
(a) Germany.
(b) Poland.
(c) England.
(d) U.S.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what reason does Metaxas report that Bonhoeffer and Hermann Sasse wrote the Bethel Confession?

2. How does Metaxas report that Bonhoeffer's parents learned of his death?

3. What did Bonhoeffer believe to be the future of theological education in Germany, according to a letter cited by Metaxas?

4. What was a recurring them that Bonhoeffer taught in the years before he became involved in the illegal seminaries of the Confessing Church, according to Metaxas?

5. Who does Metaxas report to be the professor who became the greatest influence over Bonhoeffer's life?

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