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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 report to be the focus of Bonhoeffer's thoughts in London while some of his colleagues were concentrating on political battles against Nazi intrusion of the church?
(a) Bonhoeffer was thinking about God's call of discipleship and its cost.
(b) Bonhoeffer was thinking about how to get the world involved in dealing with Hitler's social and religious agenda.
(c) Bonhoeffer was thinking about permanently leaving Germany and renouncing his citizenship.
(d) Bonhoeffer was thinking about how he could best influence Germany's leaders.

2. What observation on prayer, cited by Metaxas, that Bonhoeffer made after observing prostitutes attending a Catholic Mass at Sacre Coeur?
(a) "The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day."
(b) "When our will whole heartedly enters in the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly."
(c) "It's much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity."
(d) "Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God...He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work."

3. What former theological nemesis of Bonhoeffer's does Metaxas report to have joined a conspiracy against Hitler?
(a) Theodor Heckel.
(b) Ludwig von Muller
(c) Hans Schonfeld.
(d) George Bell.

4. What were the two reasons Metaxas cites that Bonhoeffer decided to lead two German congregations in London?
(a) To participate in honest "parish work" and to separate from the church struggles in Germany to gain perspective on the bigger picture.
(b) To inform England of the turmoil coming to Germany and to safely lead a church insurrection from outside of Germany.
(c) To practically apply what he had learned of ministry and to prepare to become a German ex-patriot as the Nazis continued to absorb power.
(d) To minister freely without Nazi intrusions and to restore his energy for challenges in Germany that he knew were to come.

5. What does Metaxas report to be the commissar order?
(a) A military order that ordered that all Soviet commissars be captured and grilled for torture techniques.
(b) A military order that all captured Soviet military leaders were to be shot and killed.
(c) A direct order that all German military officers would be assigned a Nazi commissar to direct them in the proper German method of conducting combat.
(d) A direct order that all prisoners taken by the German military were to be placed under the direct command of an SS commissar.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What threat did Theodor Heckel make against Bonhoeffer to make him stop his attempts to oppose the German church from England?

3. What was Bonhoeffer's view of philosophy, according to Metaxas?

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

5. 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?

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