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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17, 18 and 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question regarding the reformation became increasingly important to Bonhoeffer as the Nazis became increasingly demanding of the Lutheran church?
(a) Did the reformation go wrong by moving from a sect to a church.
(b) Did Christianity have too close of a relationship with pagan culture when the catholic church became officially recognized.
(c) Can there really be a separation of church and state?
(d) Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people?

2. 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 how to get the world involved in dealing with Hitler's social and religious agenda.
(b) Bonhoeffer was thinking about permanently leaving Germany and renouncing his citizenship.
(c) Bonhoeffer was thinking about how he could best influence Germany's leaders.
(d) Bonhoeffer was thinking about God's call of discipleship and its cost.

3. Why does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer, "...struggled with the 'problem' of being charming."
(a) Because it caused social problems for him.
(b) Because it was frowned upon by his father.
(c) Because he wanted the words and logic of what he said to be the only things to which others responded.
(d) Because he was, by nature, a recluse.

4. Toward the end of 1923, what does Metaxas claim could be bought with 100,000 marks?
(a) A bottle of wine and strawberries.
(b) A months rent.
(c) A week of groceries.
(d) A Mercedes Benz.

5. Why does Metaxas claim that the Nazis used Martin Luther's late writings regarding Jews to promote their agenda against the Jews.
(a) Because the Nazis respected Luther's theological perspective.
(b) Because Luther's defined what it was to be a German Christian.
(c) Because Luther's views met with the scientific foundation of the Nazis' racial policies.
(d) Because Hitler adulated Luther.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Metaxas, to what did ideas and beliefs have to relate before Bonhoeffer would consider them worthwhile?

2. According to Metaxas, after Bonhoeffer had returned to Germany from New York, how did he view theology?

3. How does Metaxas indicate Deutsche Hilfsverein affected Bonhoeffer?

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

5. Where did Bonhoeffer first meet Eberhard Bethge, according to Metaxas?

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