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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 29, 30 and 31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Metaxas claim the movie "All Quiet on the Western Front" affected Bonhoeffer?
(a) It led him to believe that children should not be allowed into serious movies.
(b) It made him suspicious of Jewish film makers.
(c) It influenced him to become a pacifist.
(d) It caused him to rethink his thoughts about the French.

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

3. What does Metaxas report to be the one thing that Bonhoeffer did every day of his captivity?
(a) He had coffee that was one quarter grounds.
(b) He maintained the daily discipline of scriptural meditation and prayer he had been practicing for more than a decade.
(c) He wrote in his diary.
(d) He had to leave his bucket outside the door every morning.

4. What does Metaxas suggest that Bonhoeffer meant by "religionless Christianity"?
(a) Bonhoeffer was seeing that it was time to recognize God's authority over the whole world and stop keeping Him in religious corners that we reserve for Him.
(b) Bonhoeffer began to believe that the evils of the Nazis indicated that God was dead.
(c) Bonhoeffer did not believe that the Nazis were going to be removed from Germany, so Christian churches would cease to exist and Christians were going to have to live out their faith.
(d) Bonhoeffer felt that his turmoil in prison was proving all his devotion to God to be a sham and he came to the point of renouncing his religion.

5. Upon what Christian principal was the Barman Declaration that rejected Nazi influence over the German church based, according to Metaxas?
(a) That the creation cannot make itself equal to the creator.
(b) That man is always attempting to become God.
(c) That God is completely unknowable except by revelation.
(d) That man is bent toward sin and is in need of redemption.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Metaxas report a member of Igel described Bonhoeffer?

2. Who in the conspiracy against Hitler does Metaxas suggest was arrested before Bonhoeffer?

3. How does Metaxas claim that Operation Flash got it's name?

4. How does Metaxas explain Bonhoeffer's view of the relationship of the church to the world?

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

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