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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 was choosing to dedicate his life to being a double agent.
(b) Because he knew that being willing to kill Hitler was leading him to renounce his Christianity.
(c) He did not want to implicate the church in a task that he was undertaking alone.
(d) He knew that the church would be marred by his sin.

2. What does Metaxas suggest to be the internal struggle regarding military service that troubled Bonhoeffer?
(a) He was looking for a way to avoid military service without being imprisoned.
(b) 4. He did not want to join the military but did not want to be considered a coward.
(c) He was looking for a way to obey his conscience, but would not force others to face consequences for his decisions.
(d) He did not want to join the military, but he did not want to leave Germany.

3. How does Metaxas show how Eberhard Bethge explained how Bonhoeffer could accept the paradox of being a Christian involved in an assassination plot against a head of state?
(a) Metaxas showed that Bonhoeffer's fate was to eliminate Hitler, the cause of war, or accept a position in the military in which he would be involved in eliminate people with whom he had no disagreement.
(b) 4. Bethge said that Bonhoeffer told him that God and instructed him how to kill Hitler.
(c) Bethge explained that as the Hitler regime became more murderous, mere confession of beliefs with out action essentially became complicity with the murders.
(d) 3. Bethge said that Bonhoeffer knew that his role in the assassination attempt was a sin that fell outside of his Christian faith.

4. How did the Treaty of Versailles play a role in protecting Hitler from a coup, according to Metaxas?
(a) Hitler pointed out that the treaty prohibited their jobs from existing, so he showed that his violating it was in their benefit.
(b) The German generals desired to overthrow the treaty so they accepted the victories to which Hitler led them.
(c) The treaty prohibited any action on their part unless it was taken under the advisement of the allied powers that wrote it.
(d) The treaty prohibited such treachery as they were planning in their coup.

5. What does Metaxas claim to be the major obstacle that inhibited the relationship between Bonhoeffer and Maria von Wedemeyer from developing, according to Metaxas?
(a) She was a dedicated Nazi.
(b) She was a close intimate of Hitler's inner circle.
(c) He was 36 and she was 18.
(d) She was a member of the German Christians.

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

7. Why does Metaxas identify Bethge as an important figure for Bonhoeffer's legacy?
(a) Bethge would pick up Bonhoeffer's ministry after he was sent to prison.
(b) Bonhoeffer would confide in Bethge about some of his bouts with depression.
(c) Bethge would preserve many of Bonhoeffer's writings and distribute them through the world.
(d) Bethge would keep very close contact with Bonhoeffer during his time in prison.

8. When does Metaxas record Maria learned of Bonhoeffer's arrest?
(a) Two days later when the Gestapo showed up at her house to question her about her relationship with Bonhoeffer.
(b) April 20.
(c) April 5.
(d) 13 days after it had happened.

9. Who in the conspiracy against Hitler does Metaxas suggest was arrested before Bonhoeffer?
(a) Hans Oster.
(b) Hans Dohnanyi.
(c) Wilhelm Schmidhuber.
(d) Joseph Muller.

10. Why did Bonhoeffer communicate, in his essay "After Ten Years", that the conspiracy with which he was involved with Bethge, Dohnanyi and Oster, would fail, according to quotes used by Metaxas?
(a) Because he knew the Nazis were watching their every move and one of them was bound to slip up at some point.
(b) Because Hitler had a legion of demons around him that drove his evil in the spiritual realm.
(c) Because he knew that he and his friends would be willing to sacrifice all when they were called to obedient, responsible action in faith to God
(d) Because he knew that what they were planning was a grievous sin and that God would show His judgment by keeping them from their goal.

11. To what Biblical prophets did Metaxas compare Bonhoeffer based upon the speech he gave at Fano?
(a) Jeremiah and Jonah.
(b) Nehemiah and Jeremiah.
(c) John the Baptist and Elijah.
(d) Daniel and Samuel.

12. Which of the following does Metaxas not report to have been arrested on the same day as Bonhoeffer?
(a) Joseph Muller.
(b) General Ludwig Beck
(c) Hans Dohnanyi.
(d) Christine Bonhoeffer.

13. Why did Colonel Claus von Sauffenberg join the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler, according to Metaxas?
(a) Stauffenberg could rise in political rank and someday be the Chancellor of Germany if he successfully killed Hitler.
(b) He could not face his conscience if he did not act.
(c) He was disgusted with Hitler when he witnessed the treatment of Polish prisoners of war in 1939 and for the murder of the Jews.
(d) A devout Catholic, Sauffenberg agreed with Bonhoeffer that the Nazis were attempting to eliminate the Christian religion.

14. How had the relationship come to be known to Maria's mother, according to Metaxas?
(a) Through Maria's brother, Max von Wedemeyer.
(b) Bonhoeffer told her through correspondence.
(c) Maria confessed her love for Bonhoeffer directly to her mother.
(d) Through Maria's grandmother, Ruth von Kleist-Retzow.

15. Why didn't the suicide plan involving Major Rudolf-Christoph von Gersdorff to kill Hitler with bombs hiding in Gersdorff's overcoat while Hitler attended a Hero's Memorial Day, according to Metaxas?
(a) Because Hitler cut his visit short before the bombs could detonate.
(b) Because Gersdorff lost his nerve.
(c) Because the Gestapo had discovered the plot and had Gersdorff arrested.
(d) Because the fuses to the bombs did not work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer saw Psalms 74 as being a direct communication from God regarding the situation in Germany?

2. What does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer recognized while he planned to carry out his engagement with Maria and proceed with plans to assassinate Hitler?

3. What question does Metaxas raise with regard to Bonhoeffer's interest in taking a trip to India to visit Ghandi?

4. 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?

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

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