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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26 and 27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Metaxas suggest Karl Bonhoeffer met living expenses during the period of hyperinflation caused by the Treaty of Versailles?
(a) By selling the family home.
(b) By taking additional work as a university professor and medical writer.
(c) By cashing in a life insurance policy.
(d) By taking payment in other currencies than the Deutch Mark.

2. Why did the opponents the group, "German Christians" consider the name to be oxymoronic?
(a) Because many who were joining the group were not German or Christian.
(b) Because they were following Adolf Hitler who was neither German or Christian.
(c) Because most Christians had already left Germany.
(d) Because the group's embrace of heresy violated the definition of being Christian, and many true Germans disagreed with their positions.

3. What seeming contradiction of Bonhoeffer's was amplified by the war, according to Metaxas?
(a) Bonhoeffer could not fight for Hitler's Germany, but he was extraordinarily supportive of those who did.
(b) Bonhoeffer was not a pacifist, but he did not support wars.
(c) Bonhoeffer would not join the military, but he encouraged others to join.
(d) Bonhoeffer would not be willing to kill as a soldier, but he was willing to conspire to kill Hitler.

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

5. 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?
(a) Every Norwegian bishop marched on the capital and demanded the decision be reversed.
(b) Every Norwegian bishop placed their churches under the authority of the Confessing Church.
(c) Every Norwegian bishop disappeared and took the church underground.
(d) Every Norwegian bishop immediately severed his connections to the government.

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 does Metaxas report to be the occupations of Bonhoeffer's parents?

3. What does Metaxas identify as the major difference between the ecumenical movement and Bonhoeffer with regard to WWII?

4. What does Metaxas cite as the first reason that Bonhoeffer joined the Abwehr?

5. Upon what Christian principal was the Barman Declaration that rejected Nazi influence over the German church based, according to Metaxas?

(see the answer key)

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