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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. How does Metaxas describe the mood of the people where Bonhoeffer was memorialized?
(a) Bonhoeffer's former classmates and professors were somber as each offered a eulogy.
(b) It seemed strange to many Britons to honor a German citizen after suffering from the war with Germany.
(c) The crowd at the Vatican was subdued and respectful as the Pope gave his observations.
(d) Flossenburg camp survivors were subdued and sought to avoid detection.

2. Why does Metaxas claim that the Nazis used Martin Luther's late writings regarding Jews to promote their agenda against the Jews.
(a) Because the Nazis respected Luther's theological perspective.
(b) Because Luther's defined what it was to be a German Christian.
(c) Because Hitler adulated Luther.
(d) Because Luther's views met with the scientific foundation of the Nazis' racial policies.

3. According to Metaxas, to what did ideas and beliefs have to relate before Bonhoeffer would consider them worthwhile?
(a) The Bible.
(b) The observations of great historians.
(c) The universal catholic church.
(d) The world of reality outside one's mind.

4. To what did Metaxas credit much of Luther's bitterness toward the Jews and others at the end of his life?
(a) An increasing exclusionary view of grace.
(b) A series of illnesses and generally declining health.
(c) A legalistic view of sin.
(d) A hard-line interpretation of the bible.

5. What accomplishment of Bonhoeffer's maternal great grandfather, Karl August von Hase, does Metaxas credit with fueling Bonhoeffer's interest in Rome?
(a) Von Hase's vast collection of lyric poetry of Horace and Catullus.
(b) Von Hase's 20 trips there and the strong ties he cultivated through them.
(c) Von Hase's extensive journals and geographic records of his trips to Rome.
(d) Von Hase's many mission trips with Roman Catholic Officials.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer became a soldier?

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

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

4. At what age does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer completed his second postdoctoral thesis?

5. What does Metaxas claim to have set the mood of Britons regarding their attitude toward Germans?

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