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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 29, 30 and 31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Metaxas suggest gave Bonhoeffer hope on Easter Sunday, 1945?
(a) Many of the prison guards were not showing up at their stations so they could escape capture by American soldiers.
(b) The sound of allied weaponry and bombs approaching Buchenwald.
(c) News from General von Falkenhausen, one of the inmates with Bonhoeffer, that the German defeat was at hand.
(d) His renewed faith that the Resurrection symbolized he would come through his imprisonment.

2. What speculation does Metaxas offer for the reason that the British government would not encourage German conspiracies to assassinate Hitler?
(a) Churchill did not believe that a German conspiracy could be successful.
(b) Churchill wanted the credit of killing Hitler to go to a British scheme.
(c) Churchill was preoccupied with capturing and trying Hitler.
(d) Churchill wanted to mollify Stalin.

3. What does Metaxas cite as the first reason that Bonhoeffer joined the Abwehr?
(a) The Abwehr had become a front organization for helping Jews leave Germany.
(b) Joining the Abwehr put him in touch with the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler.
(c) By joining the Abwehr, Bonhoeffer could avoid military service.
(d) The gestapo would be forced to leave him alone and he would have freedom of movement to continue his work as a pastor.

4. What speculation does Metaxas make as to why the former Nazi official who performed medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners was placed in confinement?
(a) Because he attempted to publish his findings in a Swiss medical journal so they could be more widely used.
(b) He was found to be keeping records of what he was doing for the Nazis so he could share them with allied officials to incriminate his superiors.
(c) Because he had come to his conscience and refused to conduct any more experiments.
(d) He had become disgusted with his work and joined the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler.

5. What did Bonhoeffer claim to be the two main questions that young theologians brought to him in a letter to Karl Barth that was cited by Metaxas?
(a) What should be our view toward the Jews? Aren't we to honor the government since it was ordained by God?
(b) Should we strive to work within the government to change those practices that are immoral? Aren't we as Christians to humbly submit to the governing authority?
(c) How do I minister the Gospel under the opposition of the government? How do I protect my flock from the government?
(d) How do I learn to pray? How do I learn to read the Bible?

Short Answer Questions

1. What event began WWII according to Metaxas?

2. How does Metaxas indicate that Churchill harmed the conspiracy against Hitler?

3. What does Metaxas claim to have given Bonhoeffer any value during his trip to New York?

4. How did Bonhoeffer consider Christian opposition to Hitler's and the German Christian's manipulation of the church throughout the establishment of the Reichsbischof, according to Metaxas?

5. What does Metaxas report to be Hitler's proposal to navigate relations between the church and the German government?

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