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Multiple Choice Questions

1. What international event prevented a conspiracy from declaring Hitler insane and removing him from office, according to Metaxas?
(a) The resignation of General Ludwig von Beck.
(b) The Krystallnacht.
(c) Neville Chamberlain appearing in Munich to negotiate the peaceful German occupation of Czechoslovakia?
(d) The Anschluss of Austria.

2. What does Metaxas claim to be Bonhoeffer's view of death?
(a) It was the only way to see if Christian faith was true.
(b) It was a separation that was not requested or welcomed.
(c) It was the "last station on the road to freedom".
(d) It was his opportunity to enter into the glory of the Lord.

3. After Bonhoeffer announced he would be willing to personally kill Hitler, why does Metaxas claim he would have to resign from the Confessing Church?
(a) He knew that the church would be marred by his sin.
(b) He did not want to implicate the church in a task that he was undertaking alone.
(c) He was choosing to dedicate his life to being a double agent.
(d) Because he knew that being willing to kill Hitler was leading him to renounce his Christianity.

4. What does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer saw would destroy Germany after the defeat of France?
(a) He saw that now that Germans were turning back history, Germans would be taken by jealousy for each other.
(b) He saw that Hitler would be able to lead them to their own destruction.
(c) He saw that they had become mindlessly controlled by the Nazi view for Germany.
(d) He saw that Germany would be destroyed by success.

5. What does Metaxas cite as the main reason that Bonhoeffer's treatment at Tegel was not as severe as it could have been?
(a) Bonhoeffer's uncle, Paul von Hase, was the military commandant who had authority over the top warden at Tegel.
(b) The guards at Tegel found Bonhoeffer to be a good man who treated them with kindness.
(c) The officials at Tegel were inwardly anti-Nazi like Bonhoeffer.
(d) Bonhoeffer's fame as a pastor and public opponent to the Nazis made him something of a celebrity.

6. How did the commissar order revitalize the conspiracy to overthrow Hitler?
(a) The generals felt that adding an SS commissar to their entourage would slow down their progress.
(b) Many generals considered the order to be an unreasonable violation of the rules of warfare.
(c) The generals felt that prisoners of war were their responsibility and could be used in productive supporting roles for their soldiers.
(d) Many generals felt Soviet commissars could be used to find more important tactical information.

7. What dramatic event greeted Bonhoeffer as 1938 was beginning, according to Metaxas?
(a) He became part of the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler.
(b) He heard about Kristallnacht.
(c) Gestapo officers arrested him and 30 others during a meeting of the Confessing Church.
(d) He helped his sister and her husband leave Germany for Switzerland.

8. How does Metaxas report that Hitler avoided political confrontations from his generals as he was making plans for war?
(a) He put out false stories that his major opponents in the military were homosexuals.
(b) He conducted the peaceful anchluss of Austria.
(c) He met with Neville Chamberlain to negotiate the peaceful acquisition of Czechoslovakia.
(d) He took command of the military by establishing the OKW and surrounding himself with supporters.

9. According to Metaxas, why didn't Hitler have everyone involved in the conspiracy against him immediately executed?
(a) He was planning massive, televised show trials after his success in the war.
(b) Hitler wanted to get as much information as possible regarding the conspiracy.
(c) He wanted to enjoy torturing the co-conspirators to their death.
(d) The war was winding down and the resources were not available to retrieve all of them.

10. Why was the German Government opposed to Bonhoeffer and is ordinands traveling to visit the Swiss church, according to a quote found by Metaxas?
(a) "...because his influence is not conducive to German interests."
(b) "...because it is important that we protect the Christian solidarity of our citizens."
(c) "...because Bonhoeffer has caused no small amount of embarrassment when he has gone to other countries."
(d) "...because Bonhoeffer's presentation to the international press will bring disfavor to our leaders."

11. What speculation does Metaxas make as to why the former Nazi official who performed medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners was placed in confinement?
(a) Because he had come to his conscience and refused to conduct any more experiments.
(b) He had become disgusted with his work and joined the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler.
(c) He was found to be keeping records of what he was doing for the Nazis so he could share them with allied officials to incriminate his superiors.
(d) Because he attempted to publish his findings in a Swiss medical journal so they could be more widely used.

12. How does Metaxas explain that Bonhoeffer planned to escape from Tegel?
(a) His uncle, Paul von Hase, military commandant over Tegel, would have him released.
(b) By walking out with Corporal Knobloch in a mechanics uniform.
(c) By hiding in a bag of dirty laundry to be delivered to a uniform service.
(d) By tunneling out from his cell.

13. Where did Bonhoeffer first meet Eberhard Bethge, according to Metaxas?
(a) During one of the many social engagements at his parents home.
(b) In Berlin upon his return from England.
(c) During a conference with leaders of the Confessing Church.
(d) On the peninsula of Zingst.

14. What did Bonhoeffer believe to be the future of theological education in Germany, according to a letter cited by Metaxas?
(a) "Churches will have to become invisible and protective if they are to teach the Gospel in the future."
(b) "The entire education of the younger generation of theologians belongs today in church cloister-like schools, in which pure doctrine, the Sermon on the Mount and worship are taken seriously...."
(c) "Christians will have to seek protection from international ecumenical movements to intercede between authoritarian governments and doctrinal freedom."
(d) "The only hope for teaching any biblical truth is to find areas of compromise with the current regime and willingly take those for the immediate future."

15. What was the last thing Bonhoeffer did with the prisoners with whom he was in transit before he was taken by the Gestapo to be executed?
(a) He went to bed for the first time in three months.
(b) He performed a worship service on Quasimodo Sunday (the first Sunday after Easter).
(c) He had gone into his daily Bible verse meditation.
(d) He shared some potato salad and coffee with his fellow inmates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What action by Norwegian bishops in response to Vidkun Quisling's removal of Provost Fjellbu from a church leadership position does Metaxis report encouraged Bonhoeffer?

2. On the day that Bonhoeffer was arrested, what does Metaxas report Maria had written to Bonhoeffer in her diary?

3. Why did Bonhoeffer recommend that Bethge keep up daily meditations on scripture even while he traveled according to Metaxas?

4. According to a letter cited by Metaxas, what aspect of prison life was an enrichment of his life's experience?

5. Why did Colonel Claus von Sauffenberg join the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler, according to Metaxas?

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