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

2. Why did the opponents the group, "German Christians" consider the name to be oxymoronic?
(a) Because many who were joining the group were not German or Christian.
(b) Because the group's embrace of heresy violated the definition of being Christian, and many true Germans disagreed with their positions.
(c) Because most Christians had already left Germany.
(d) Because they were following Adolf Hitler who was neither German or Christian.

3. What does Metaxas identify as the difference between the theological debate in the U.S. in the 1930's and those in which Bonhoeffer participated as he was earning his doctorate degrees?
(a) Bonhoeffer was eager to use the Bible and church history to support his positions, but none of the contestants in the American debate sought such support.
(b) Bonhoeffer's European debates were founded on centuries of church heritage which the American debates neglected.
(c) Those who participated in the American debate accepted conclusions to various arguments but showed no interest in finding how those conclusions were developed.
(d) Bonhoeffer respected those with whom he disagreed, but sides in the American debate would tolerate no contributions from their detractors.

4. What threat did Theodor Heckel make against Bonhoeffer to make him stop his attempts to oppose the German church from England?
(a) Heckel pointed out that the government knew where Bonhoeffer's family lived.
(b) Heckel said that if Bonhoeffer returned he could be put in a concentration camp.
(c) Heckel said that he could use his position to have his degrees rescinded.
(d) Heckel implied that Bonhoeffer's activities with non-German church leaders were considered treasonous.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does Metaxas raise with regard to Bonhoeffer's interest in taking a trip to India to visit Ghandi?

2. What does Metaxas suggest prevented Bonhoeffer from accepting his grandmother's encouragement to take a trip to India to visit Ghandi?

3. At what age does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer completed his second postdoctoral thesis?

4. While Bonhoeffer was in London, who does Metaxas identify as the church leader who became his most important contact in the ecumenical movement?

5. What does Metaxas report to be the conditions in Germany that inspired Adolph Hitler to lead the Bierhall Putch?

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