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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 23, 24 and 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Metaxas indicate Deutsche Hilfsverein affected Bonhoeffer?
(a) He saw how people whose businesses failed and those who were caught in poverty or crime lived.
(b) He learned how Germany was influencing the governments and cultures of other countries.
(c) He saw the terrible nature of Nazi anti-semitism.
(d) It helped him with the realization of how his German heritage would direct his life.

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

3. How did Bonhoeffer characterize his decision to go to Barcelona, according to Metaxas?
(a) "I made my decision based upon what was best for me and Elizabeth (Zinn)."
(b) "It happened that I went."
(c) "After much council and fervent prayer, I made the decision that changed my life."
(d) "In spite of the protests of my parents, I decided this venture was where I was being led."

4. What does Metaxas report to be the subject of Bonhoeffer's first sermon in Barcelona?
(a) An analysis between the historical critical view of the bible and the view of revelation.
(b) The difference between a faith based on human moral efforts and one based on god's grace.
(c) The evils of judging based upon race.
(d) The comparison between a creationist view of origins and a Darwinist approach.

5. What does Metaxas claim to be the priority of the congregations that Bonhoeffer led in London?
(a) To support the German Christians abroad.
(b) To help in opposing Nazi efforts to interfere with the mission of the church.
(c) To influence other countries that the Nazi government was trustworthy.
(d) Maintain cultural connections with the homeland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer discovered of Spanish professors and contemporary Spanish writers?

2. How does Metaxas show how Eberhard Bethge explained how Bonhoeffer could accept the paradox of being a Christian involved in an assassination plot against a head of state?

3. What quote of Bonhoeffer's friend, Franz Hildebrandt, does Metaxas use to show the intellectual demands Bonhoeffer placed on those who were close to him.

4. 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?

5. What is the one area in which Bonhoeffer's father saw a relationship with the work of his son, according to a letter cited by Metaxas?

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