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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Metaxas claim that the Nazis used Martin Luther's late writings regarding Jews to promote their agenda against the Jews.
(a) Because Hitler adulated Luther.
(b) Because the Nazis respected Luther's theological perspective.
(c) Because Luther's views met with the scientific foundation of the Nazis' racial policies.
(d) Because Luther's defined what it was to be a German Christian.

2. Who does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer's first love to be?
(a) Maria von Wedemeyer.
(b) Elizabeth Zinn.
(c) Emmi Delbruck.
(d) Grete von Dohnanyi.

3. To what did Metaxas credit Bonhoeffer's intellectual independence and confidence in contradicting his theology professors?
(a) His experience in Rome.
(b) The experience he had during the German hyper inflation.
(c) His desire for cultural and intellectual stimulation.
(d) Growing up with Karl Bonhoeffer who would make him justify all his words.

4. What does Metaxas use for the information upon which he builds his book?
(a) Interviews of Bonhoeffer's intimates.
(b) Bonhoeffer's own writings.
(c) The collected works of Bonhoeffer's biographers.
(d) Public records of Bonhoeffers activities as a spy.

5. From whom does Metaxas report that Bonhoeffer's mother, Clara von Hase, took piano lessons?.
(a) Ludwig von Beethoven and Wolfgang Mozart.
(b) Johann Strauss.
(c) Franz Liszt and Clara Schumann.
(d) Wagner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Metaxas claim to have set the mood of Britons regarding their attitude toward Germans?

2. What does Metaxas report to be the subject of Bonhoeffer's first sermon in Barcelona?

3. What is the explanation that Metaxas gives for Bonhoeffer's willingness to join the same fraternity his father, Igel, when he attended Berlin University?

4. What accomplishment of Bonhoeffer's maternal great grandfather, Karl August von Hase, does Metaxas credit with fueling Bonhoeffer's interest in Rome?

5. How does Metaxas report that Bonhoeffer's parents learned of his death?

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