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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Metaxas suggest that Bonhoeffer greeted the German victory over France with standing with the crowd and calling, "Heil, Hitler!"
(a) Because he had crossed a line to joining the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler and he wanted to blend in with crowds to avoid questions or scrutiny.
(b) Because Bonhoeffer was finally wearing down to the pressure and confrontations.
(c) Bonhoeffer was tired of fighting everyone over the Nazis.
(d) Because Bonhoeffer was beginning to see that what Hitler was doing was overall beneficial to Germany.

2. To what Biblical prophets did Metaxas compare Bonhoeffer based upon the speech he gave at Fano?
(a) Nehemiah and Jeremiah.
(b) Jeremiah and Jonah.
(c) Daniel and Samuel.
(d) John the Baptist and Elijah.

3. What does Metaxas cite as the main reason that Bonhoeffer's treatment at Tegel was not as severe as it could have been?
(a) The officials at Tegel were inwardly anti-Nazi like Bonhoeffer.
(b) Bonhoeffer's fame as a pastor and public opponent to the Nazis made him something of a celebrity.
(c) Bonhoeffer's uncle, Paul von Hase, was the military commandant who had authority over the top warden at Tegel.
(d) The guards at Tegel found Bonhoeffer to be a good man who treated them with kindness.

4. How does Metaxas explain the Nuremberg laws affected the Jews?
(a) The Nuremberg laws removed German citizenship from the Jews and made them subjects of the German government.
(b) The Nuremberg laws socially isolated the Jews by forbidding non-Jews from socializing with them.
(c) The Nuremberg laws opened the floodgate of emigration of Jews out of Germany.
(d) The Nuremberg laws led directly to the Krystallnacht.

5. What does Metaxas claim to be Bonhoeffer's view of death?
(a) It was the "last station on the road to freedom".
(b) It was a separation that was not requested or welcomed.
(c) It was the only way to see if Christian faith was true.
(d) It was his opportunity to enter into the glory of the Lord.

6. How does Metaxas report that Hitler avoided political confrontations from his generals as he was making plans for war?
(a) He put out false stories that his major opponents in the military were homosexuals.
(b) He conducted the peaceful anchluss of Austria.
(c) He met with Neville Chamberlain to negotiate the peaceful acquisition of Czechoslovakia.
(d) He took command of the military by establishing the OKW and surrounding himself with supporters.

7. How does Metaxas indicate that Churchill harmed the conspiracy against Hitler?
(a) By refusing to hear any information of its progress.
(b) By accusing every German of being a Nazi.
(c) By announcing that he would only accept an unconditional surrender from Germany.
(d) By refusing to negotiate with it until it had killed Hitler.

8. What dramatic event greeted Bonhoeffer as 1938 was beginning, according to Metaxas?
(a) Gestapo officers arrested him and 30 others during a meeting of the Confessing Church.
(b) He became part of the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler.
(c) He helped his sister and her husband leave Germany for Switzerland.
(d) He heard about Kristallnacht.

9. According to Metaxas, why did the Gestapo take Bonhoeffer for execution?
(a) No strong reason exists in the historical record.
(b) Hitler wanted to take one last action against Christianity.
(c) The Gestapo had found a record of Nazi atrocities that was being kept by Hans von Dohnanyi that had identified Bonhoeffer as a co-conspirator against Hitler.
(d) He was taken by mistake.

10. Why did Bonhoeffer communicate, in his essay "After Ten Years", that the conspiracy with which he was involved with Bethge, Dohnanyi and Oster, would fail, according to quotes used by Metaxas?
(a) Because Hitler had a legion of demons around him that drove his evil in the spiritual realm.
(b) Because he knew that what they were planning was a grievous sin and that God would show His judgment by keeping them from their goal.
(c) Because he knew the Nazis were watching their every move and one of them was bound to slip up at some point.
(d) Because he knew that he and his friends would be willing to sacrifice all when they were called to obedient, responsible action in faith to God

11. What did Bonhoeffer believe to be the future of theological education in Germany, according to a letter cited by Metaxas?
(a) "Churches will have to become invisible and protective if they are to teach the Gospel in the future."
(b) "Christians will have to seek protection from international ecumenical movements to intercede between authoritarian governments and doctrinal freedom."
(c) "The entire education of the younger generation of theologians belongs today in church cloister-like schools, in which pure doctrine, the Sermon on the Mount and worship are taken seriously...."
(d) "The only hope for teaching any biblical truth is to find areas of compromise with the current regime and willingly take those for the immediate future."

12. What reason did Metaxas give for the Bonhoeffer family's ability to escape scrutiny even though it was deeply involved in seditious activities?
(a) They were wealthy enough to bribe officials that were investigating them.
(b) Their intelligence allowed them to communicate on several levels and get a precise message to an intended target.
(c) All of them were very skilled at "playing dumb".
(d) The Bonhoeffer's had connections throughout government that would overlook what they were doing.

13. According to Metaxas, why didn't Hitler have everyone involved in the conspiracy against him immediately executed?
(a) He was planning massive, televised show trials after his success in the war.
(b) The war was winding down and the resources were not available to retrieve all of them.
(c) Hitler wanted to get as much information as possible regarding the conspiracy.
(d) He wanted to enjoy torturing the co-conspirators to their death.

14. How did the Treaty of Versailles play a role in protecting Hitler from a coup, according to Metaxas?
(a) The treaty prohibited any action on their part unless it was taken under the advisement of the allied powers that wrote it.
(b) The German generals desired to overthrow the treaty so they accepted the victories to which Hitler led them.
(c) Hitler pointed out that the treaty prohibited their jobs from existing, so he showed that his violating it was in their benefit.
(d) The treaty prohibited such treachery as they were planning in their coup.

15. What relationship did Bonhoeffer have with Maria von Wedemeyer before he had seen her while visiting her grandmother?
(a) He had refused to take the task of training her for her confirmation when she was 12 because she did not seem mature enough.
(b) He had acted as an uncle to her in the absence of her father who was sent to the Russian front.
(c) He trained her as a Bible student as part of the Confessing Church.
(d) He was a close friend of her brother's in the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what reason does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer left London for Berlin?

2. What international event prevented a conspiracy from declaring Hitler insane and removing him from office, according to Metaxas?

3. Why did Bonhoeffer recommend that Bethge keep up daily meditations on scripture even while he traveled according to Metaxas?

4. 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?

5. What reservations does Metaxas claim Maria's sister and her husband had regarding Bonhoeffer?

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