View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 20, 21 and 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Metaxas report to be Bonhoeffer's first ministry?
(a) The Thursday Circle.
(b) 14 Wangenheimstrasse.
(c) Teaching and preaching to a youth Sunday school class in the Grunewald parish.
(d) The associate pastorship in Barcelona.

2. What were the three conclusions that Bonhoeffer announced in his address, "The Church and the Jewish Question", in rebuttal to the "Aryan Paragraph"?
(a) The church must recognize that government is ordained by God, rebellion against God's ordained authorities is demonic, all Christians must seek to change the state from within the state.
(b) The church must separate itself from the state, make itself the source of self-sufficiency works, and accept anyone who will accept its moral limits.
(c) The church must work with the state to see that its moral laws are consistent with God's moral laws, the church must define the political aims of its members.
(d) The church must question the state, help the state's victims, and work against the state, if necessary.

3. Where was Bonhoeffer's memorial service, according to Metaxas?
(a) The Vatican.
(b) Holy Trinity Church in London, England.
(c) Flossenburg concentration camp.
(d) Union Theological Seminary.

4. Why did the opponents the group, "German Christians" consider the name to be oxymoronic?
(a) Because most Christians had already left Germany.
(b) Because the group's embrace of heresy violated the definition of being Christian, and many true Germans disagreed with their positions.
(c) Because many who were joining the group were not German or Christian.
(d) Because they were following Adolf Hitler who was neither German or Christian.

5. Why does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer became a soldier?
(a) Because he was conscripted into militia service as the limits placed on the German military by the Treaty of Versailles were insufficient to protect Germany from enemies and insurrections.
(b) Because he felt an obligation to offer his service to the benefit of the German Empire.
(c) Because he became empathetic with a nationalist movement that identified the Treaty of Versailles as the cause of Germany's economic and social problems.
(d) Because military service was expected by his strict father.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what reason does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer left London for Berlin?

2. What did Bonhoeffer claim to be the two main questions that young theologians brought to him in a letter to Karl Barth that was cited by 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 is the explanation that Metaxas gives for Bonhoeffer's willingness to join the same fraternity his father, Igel, when he attended Berlin University?

5. From whom does Metaxas report that Bonhoeffer's mother, Clara von Hase, took piano lessons?.

(see the answer key)

This section contains 675 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample