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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 20, 21 and 22.

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 Luther's defined what it was to be a German Christian.
(c) Because the Nazis respected Luther's theological perspective.
(d) Because Luther's views met with the scientific foundation of the Nazis' racial policies.

2. Who does Metaxas report to be the professor who became the greatest influence over Bonhoeffer's life?
(a) Adolf von Harnack.
(b) Karl Holl.
(c) Karl Barth.
(d) Adolf Deissman.

3. What does Metaxas point out to be the motivation of Luther's condemnations of the Jews that he wrote late in his life?
(a) They were motivated by the Jews indifference to his efforts to convert them to Christianity.
(b) They were motivated by their racial differences to europeans.
(c) They were motivated by their economic self sufficiency.
(d) They were motivated by their aloofness to general European society.

4. How many children does Metaxas claim came to Bonhoeffer's first Sunday school class in Barcelona?
(a) One.
(b) 7.
(c) 15.
(d) 12.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Metaxas quotes Eberhard Bethge as claiming that Bonhoeffer grew up in a family that believed what about learning?

2. Why does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer's sister Sabine and her husband, Gerhard Leibholz, choose to flee Germany when they did?

3. 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?

4. How had Bonhoeffer's relationships outside of Germany affect his view of the church, according to Metaxas?

5. Why was the German Government opposed to Bonhoeffer and is ordinands traveling to visit the Swiss church, according to a quote found by Metaxas?

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