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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. What does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer discovered of Spanish professors and contemporary Spanish writers?
(a) They were bitterly anti-clerical.
(b) They provided an elevated level of conversation.
(c) They were eager to receive Bonhoeffer's thoughts about ecumenicalism.
(d) They showed the same disciplined thought as his father.

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

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

4. At what age does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer completed his second postdoctoral thesis?
(a) 31
(b) 23
(c) 27
(d) 33

5. What was the reason that Bonhoeffer felt a separation from one of his mentors in Germany, Karl Barth, according to Metaxas?
(a) Barth supported the German Christians and their plans for the Reichsbischof.
(b) Barth was not willing to split from the German church until opponents were thrown out, but Bonhoeffer wanted to establish a Free Church.
(c) Barth believe that the Nazis could be influenced through efforts to work within their institutions.
(d) Barth disagreed with Bonhoeffer on the Aryan Paragraph.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are three Freedoms that Bishop George Bell asked in the Name of the Gospel for Christians in the German Church?

3. 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?

4. What choice did Bonhoeffer explain that the German church faced in a letter to Bishop Ammundsen, cited by Metaxas, regarding the ecumenical conference in Fano?

5. What position did Hitler take when German pastors were allowed to meet with him to express their concerns?

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