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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What observation on prayer, cited by Metaxas, that Bonhoeffer made after observing prostitutes attending a Catholic Mass at Sacre Coeur?
(a) "It's much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity."
(b) "When our will whole heartedly enters in the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly."
(c) "Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God...He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work."
(d) "The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day."

2. From whom does Metaxas report that Bonhoeffer's mother, Clara von Hase, took piano lessons?.
(a) Ludwig von Beethoven and Wolfgang Mozart.
(b) Franz Liszt and Clara Schumann.
(c) Johann Strauss.
(d) Wagner.

3. According to Metaxas, upon what basis were Jews persecuted in Nazi Germany?
(a) Jews were persecuted on racial grounds.
(b) Jews were persecuted on religious grounds.
(c) Jews were persecuted on political grounds.
(d) Jews were persecuted on economic grounds.

4. What does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer discovered of Spanish professors and contemporary Spanish writers?
(a) They were bitterly anti-clerical.
(b) They provided an elevated level of conversation.
(c) They were eager to receive Bonhoeffer's thoughts about ecumenicalism.
(d) They showed the same disciplined thought as his father.

5. How does Metaxas report a member of Igel described Bonhoeffer?
(a) "Extremely secure and self-confident, not vain, but 'able to tolerate criticism.'"
(b) "Generally patriotic."
(c) "Far more rooted in his home than was customary among his fellow students."
(d) "A Champion of the kaiser and the policies of Bismarck."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was Bonhoeffer's memorial service, according to Metaxas?

3. Toward the end of 1923, what does Metaxas claim could be bought with 100,000 marks?

4. To what did Metaxas credit Bonhoeffer's intellectual independence and confidence in contradicting his theology professors?

5. Why does Metaxas claim that the Nazis used Martin Luther's late writings regarding Jews to promote their agenda against the Jews.

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