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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 was Bonhoeffer's view of philosophy, according to Metaxas?
(a) Bonhoeffer considered philosophy to be man's search for truth apart from God.
(b) Bonhoeffer believed that one could not become a solid philosopher without studying theology.
(c) Bonhoeffer considered a theologian and philosopher to be the same thing.
(d) Bonhoeffer believed that one could not become a solid theologian without studying philosophy.

2. 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?
(a) Every Norwegian bishop immediately severed his connections to the government.
(b) Every Norwegian bishop disappeared and took the church underground.
(c) Every Norwegian bishop placed their churches under the authority of the Confessing Church.
(d) Every Norwegian bishop marched on the capital and demanded the decision be reversed.

3. How did Bonhoeffer characterize German emigres in Barcelona, according to a quote used by Metaxas?
(a) Lonely and disconnected.
(b) Detached and suspicious.
(c) Informed and eager for news from home.
(d) Materialistic and not intellectual.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Metaxas claim to be the priority of the congregations that Bonhoeffer led in London?

2. How did the Treaty of Versailles play a role in protecting Hitler from a coup, according to Metaxas?

3. To what did Metaxas credit much of Luther's bitterness toward the Jews and others at the end of his life?

4. To what did Bonhoeffer compare a crowd at a bullfight, according to Metaxas?

5. What does Metaxas cite as the first reason that Bonhoeffer joined the Abwehr?

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