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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 prevent Jews from serving in Christian churches.
(b) To relocate Jews to concentration camps.
(c) To enforce the Enabling Acts.
(d) To pull out of the League of Nations.

2. What does Metaxas suggest prevented Bonhoeffer from accepting his grandmother's encouragement to take a trip to India to visit Ghandi?
(a) A lack of funding.
(b) An opportunity to travel to Rome.
(c) A concussion.
(d) His birthday.

3. Why does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer, "...struggled with the 'problem' of being charming."
(a) Because it was frowned upon by his father.
(b) Because it caused social problems for him.
(c) Because he was, by nature, a recluse.
(d) Because he wanted the words and logic of what he said to be the only things to which others responded.

4. What momentous historic event does Metaxas note took place two days after Bonhoeffer arrived in Germany, and of which he was ignorant?
(a) His brother got married.
(b) His first love got married.
(c) The Japanese left the League of nations.
(d) The Nazi Party was elected to the second largest political party in Germany.

5. Of what nation does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer to be a citizen?
(a) U.S.
(b) Poland.
(c) Germany.
(d) England.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who taught Bonhoeffer's nanny, Kathe van Horn, Christian concepts that challenged Lutheran orthodoxies of the day?

2. What quote of Bonhoeffer's friend, Franz Hildebrandt, does Metaxas use to show the intellectual demands Bonhoeffer placed on those who were close to him.

3. What does Metaxas claim to be the priority of the congregations that Bonhoeffer led in London?

4. What was a recurring them that Bonhoeffer taught in the years before he became involved in the illegal seminaries of the Confessing Church, according to Metaxas?

5. How does Metaxas describe the "Thursday Circle"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Metaxas explain how the movie "All Quiet on the Western Front" affected Bonhoeffer?

2. What does Metaxas suggest to be the motivation of Hitler's pro-Christian posturing as he was rising to power?

3. What does Metaxas highlight from Harry Emerson Fosdick's Sermon, "Shall the Fundamentalists Win?"

4. What does Metaxas report to be Churchill's response to conspiracies to assassinate Adolf Hitler seeking allied support?

5. 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.

6. What does Metaxas report to be the "Night of the Long Knives"?

7. How did Bonhoeffer characterize religion in a lecture given while he was an assistant pastor in Barcelona, according to Metaxas?

8. How does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer suggested Christians' treatment of Christ while he was in Barcelona?

9. For what was Bonhoeffer's maternal great-grandfather, Karl August von Hase, well known according to Metaxas?

10. How does Metaxas claim that Karl Barth influenced Bonhoeffer's theological approach?

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