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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 through 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer often mentioned the Tower of Babel in his sermons?
(a) To link the Nazis attempts to control the church with man's "religious" attempt to reach heaven on his own strength.
(b) To communicate with his supporters that he saw the attempts of the Nazis to be destined for failure.
(c) To prove to the Nazis that Old Testament passages had modern applications.
(d) Because he felt that too many efforts by church leaders were misdirected.

2. How does Metaxas suggest Karl Bonhoeffer met living expenses during the period of hyperinflation caused by the Treaty of Versailles?
(a) By cashing in a life insurance policy.
(b) By taking additional work as a university professor and medical writer.
(c) By selling the family home.
(d) By taking payment in other currencies than the Deutch Mark.

3. What does Metaxas suggest prevented Bonhoeffer from accepting his grandmother's encouragement to take a trip to India to visit Ghandi?
(a) His birthday.
(b) An opportunity to travel to Rome.
(c) A lack of funding.
(d) A concussion.

4. What does Metaxas report to be the focus of Bonhoeffer's speech, "The Younger Generation's Altered Concept of Leadership", that he gave two days after Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany?
(a) Bonhoeffer was providing a Biblical analysis of Hitler's election.
(b) Bonhoeffer was giving a philosophical dissent with a popular, decades old, concept, the Fuhrer Principle, that promoted the belief that Germany needed a strong central leader.
(c) Bonhoeffer was giving a Christian rebuttal to the election of Hitler.
(d) Bonhoeffer was alerting his listeners of the dangers of Hitler.

5. What theological battle was being waged when Bonhoeffer arrived in America, according to Metaxas?
(a) A battle between creationists and evolutionists.
(b) A battle between liberals and fundamentalists.
(c) A battle between Calvinists and Armenians.
(d) A battle between Catholics and Protestants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the question that Metaxas claims Jean Lassere put to Bonhoeffer that led him to become involved in the ecumenical movement?

2. What decision did Hitler make in October, 1933, that further catapulted his popularity with Germans?

3. How does Metaxas describe the "Thursday Circle"?

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

5. How did Bonhoeffer consider Christian opposition to Hitler's and the German Christian's manipulation of the church throughout the establishment of the Reichsbischof, according to Metaxas?

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