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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 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 how he could best influence Germany's leaders.
(c) Bonhoeffer was thinking about God's call of discipleship and its cost.
(d) Bonhoeffer was thinking about permanently leaving Germany and renouncing his citizenship.

2. What position did Hitler take when German pastors were allowed to meet with him to express their concerns?
(a) He was non-committal and said he would take their concerns under advisement.
(b) He said he would pass their suggestions to Reichsbischof Muller.
(c) He attempted to be conciliatory to keep their political support.
(d) He announce that he would deal with their rebellion with every means.

3. What did Bonhoeffer claim to be the two main questions that young theologians brought to him in a letter to Karl Barth that was cited by Metaxas?
(a) How do I minister the Gospel under the opposition of the government? How do I protect my flock from the government?
(b) What should be our view toward the Jews? Aren't we to honor the government since it was ordained by God?
(c) How do I learn to pray? How do I learn to read the Bible?
(d) Should we strive to work within the government to change those practices that are immoral? Aren't we as Christians to humbly submit to the governing authority?

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

5. What momentous historic event does Metaxas note took place two days after Bonhoeffer arrived in Germany, and of which he was ignorant?
(a) The Japanese left the League of nations.
(b) The Nazi Party was elected to the second largest political party in Germany.
(c) His first love got married.
(d) His brother got married.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What accomplishment of Bonhoeffer's maternal great grandfather, Karl August von Hase, does Metaxas credit with fueling Bonhoeffer's interest in Rome?

3. What was a recurring them that Bonhoeffer taught in the years before he became involved in the illegal seminaries of the Confessing Church, according to Metaxas?

4. To what did Metaxas credit Bonhoeffer's intellectual independence and confidence in contradicting his theology professors?

5. How does Metaxas suggest Karl Bonhoeffer met living expenses during the period of hyperinflation caused by the Treaty of Versailles?

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