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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What decision did Hitler make in October, 1933, that further catapulted his popularity with Germans?
(a) To relocate Jews to concentration camps.
(b) To pull out of the League of Nations.
(c) To prevent Jews from serving in Christian churches.
(d) To enforce the Enabling Acts.

2. How did Germans consider the Weimar Republic, according to Metaxas?
(a) As an unpleasant political has forced on them by their enemies...who wanted Germany to be weak anyway.
(b) As just another political arrangement designed to empower the wealthy.
(c) As a logical extension from the days of the Kaiser who ruled over the united Germanic tribes.
(d) As preferable to Bolshevism.

3. How does Metaxas explain the affect of the Aryan Paragraph on the German Church?
(a) It would require that Jesus be depicted as an Aryan.
(b) It would replace the Bible with genetic science.
(c) It would establish a new congregation made up entirely of those who could pass the genetic standards of being Aryan.
(d) It would prohibit any pastors with Jewish blood from ministry.

4. What does Metaxas claim to have complicated relations between England and Germany while Bonhoeffer was in London?
(a) The German Christians had begun purging Jewish Christians from protestant activities.
(b) Hitler was attempting to prove that he was someone who could be trusted in the international community.
(c) Reinhold Krause had made a defamatory diatribe against German Jews during a celebration at the Berlin Sportpalast.
(d) Hitler and Stalin agreed to the Nonaggression Pact.

5. What does Metaxas report to be the conditions in Germany that inspired Adolph Hitler to lead the Bierhall Putch?
(a) Hyperinflation of the German Mark due to attempts to meet the harsh economic terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
(b) A wave of nationalistic sentiment.
(c) A populist disdain for Otto von Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor.
(d) A desire to establish a constitutional republic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What choice did Bonhoeffer explain that the German church faced in a letter to Bishop Ammundsen, cited by Metaxas, regarding the ecumenical conference in Fano?

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

3. Of the students with whom Bonhoeffer socialized while in New York, which does Metaxas claim had the greatest influence?

4. What does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer discovered of Spanish professors and contemporary Spanish writers?

5. Where was Bonhoeffer's memorial service, according to Metaxas?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Metaxas report to be the "Aryan Paragraph" that was enforced by the Nazi regime shortly after they took control of the German government.

2. What does Metaxas claim to have been the make-up of Bonhoeffer's confirmation class in Wedding?

3. What event during Bonhoeffer's trip to Rome does Metaxas suggest to have begun developing Bonhoeffer's understanding of the concept of "church"?

4. How does Metaxas explain the Fuherer Principle?

5. How does Metaxas record the German Reich came into existence?

6. What does Metaxas identify as the Greek idea that Bonhoeffer considered to be "the most sever enemy" that Christianity ever had?

7. What does Metaxas claim to be Bonhoeffer's goal in writing the Bethel Confession?

8. How did Bonhoeffer's parents hear of his death, according to Metaxas?

9. How does Metaxas suggest Bonhoeffer's relationships outside of Germany affected his view of the church?

10. Why does Metaxas claim that meeting Karl Barth was important to Bonhoeffer?

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