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

2. What does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer saw would destroy Germany after the defeat of France?
(a) He saw that Hitler would be able to lead them to their own destruction.
(b) He saw that now that Germans were turning back history, Germans would be taken by jealousy for each other.
(c) He saw that they had become mindlessly controlled by the Nazi view for Germany.
(d) He saw that Germany would be destroyed by success.

3. 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?
(a) The German church faced the choice of defending their faith or compromising it.
(b) The German church faced the choice of being free or slave.
(c) The German church faced the choice of either being Christian or National Socialist.
(d) The German church faced the choice of being at peace or at war.

4. While Bonhoeffer was in London, who does Metaxas identify as the church leader who became his most important contact in the ecumenical movement?
(a) Franz Hildebrandt.
(b) George Bell.
(c) Karl Barth.
(d) Erwin Sutz.

5. How did the German Pastor's Emergency League respond to Reichsbischof Ludwig Muller's attempt to prevent it from meeting in synod by closing the Berlin Cathedral, according to Metaxas?
(a) They signed a petition expressing their disagreement.
(b) They held their synod in the courtyard adjacent to the Cathedral.
(c) They asked Bonhoeffer to separate his congregations from the official German church.
(d) They asked for international observation of Nazi involvement in church affairs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the objective that Bonhoeffer put to the attendees of the youth conference that began the ecumenical conference at Fano?

3. How had Bonhoeffer's relationships outside of Germany affect his view of the church, according to Metaxas?

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

5. How did Bonhoeffer characterize his decision to go to Barcelona, according to Metaxas?

(see the answer key)

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