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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. How does Metaxas report that Hitler avoided political confrontations from his generals as he was making plans for war?
(a) He conducted the peaceful anchluss of Austria.
(b) He met with Neville Chamberlain to negotiate the peaceful acquisition of Czechoslovakia.
(c) He took command of the military by establishing the OKW and surrounding himself with supporters.
(d) He put out false stories that his major opponents in the military were homosexuals.

2. What does Metaxas report to be the commissar order?
(a) A direct order that all prisoners taken by the German military were to be placed under the direct command of an SS commissar.
(b) A military order that ordered that all Soviet commissars be captured and grilled for torture techniques.
(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. What part of Bonhoeffer's trip to New York does Metaxas suggest had the most influence on his changed preaching style?
(a) His road trip to Mexico.
(b) His worship at the "negro churches".
(c) His viewing of "All Quiet on the Western Front" with a Frenchman.
(d) His involvement in the debate between secularists and fundamentalists.

4. How does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer kept informed of the turmoil involving the German church?
(a) Members of his congregations updated him through their contacts.
(b) He had many phone updates from a wide number of contacts.
(c) He knew British news reporters who got timely information from Berlin.
(d) His mother, Paula Bonhoeffer, kept him updated through her various contacts including her son-in-law, General von der Goltz.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Metaxas indicate that Churchill harmed the conspiracy against Hitler?

2. What was the date of Bonhoeffer's death, according to Metaxas?

3. 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?

4. What was the reason that Bonhoeffer felt a separation from one of his mentors in Germany, Karl Barth, according to Metaxas?

5. What does Metaxas suggest prevented Bonhoeffer from accepting his grandmother's encouragement to take a trip to India to visit Ghandi?

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