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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 Reformation Sunday is a patriotic holiday in Germany?
(a) It is the day that the Germanic tribes agreed to come together as a single nation.
(b) It was the day the Nazis took control of the Reichstag.
(c) It is the day that the Reformation was recognized by the Catholic Church.
(d) It celebrates Martin Luther and the cultural heritage of the Reformation.

2. Toward the end of 1923, what does Metaxas claim could be bought with 100,000 marks?
(a) A week of groceries.
(b) A bottle of wine and strawberries.
(c) A months rent.
(d) A Mercedes Benz.

3. What does Metaxas claim annoyed Hitler regarding Christian teaching?
(a) That Christianity had a long tradition that could not be dismantled.
(b) That Christianity preached meekness.
(c) That Christianity taught that Jesus was the only begotten son of God.
(d) That Jesus was Jewish.

4. According to Metaxas, how did Karl Bonhoeffer, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's father, meet Bonhoeffer's mother, the former Paula von Hase?
(a) He met her while on a tour to Breslau.
(b) He met her while ice skating on the canals in the morning.
(c) He met her in her role as an assistant to Karl Wernicke, an internationally renowned professor of psychiatry.
(d) He met her at an "open evening" at the house of physicist Oscar meyer.

5. What does Metaxas point out to be the motivation of Luther's condemnations of the Jews that he wrote late in his life?
(a) They were motivated by the Jews indifference to his efforts to convert them to Christianity.
(b) They were motivated by their aloofness to general European society.
(c) They were motivated by their economic self sufficiency.
(d) They were motivated by their racial differences to europeans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer found when he visited Friedrich von Bodelschwing's Bethel community in Bielefeld?

2. What quote does Metaxas pull from a sermon that Bonhoeffer gave in Barcelona while his parents were visiting?

3. How did Metaxas define the Aryan Paragraph?

4. What does Metaxas report to be the conditions in Germany that inspired Adolph Hitler to lead the Bierhall Putch?

5. What theological battle was being waged when Bonhoeffer arrived in America, according to Metaxas?

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