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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 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 being at peace or at war.
(d) The German church faced the choice of either being Christian or National Socialist.

2. 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?
(a) Transubstantiation--that Christians take the blood and body of Christ in communion.
(b) Original Sin--that man's condition is based upon the sin of Adam.
(c) Incarnation--that God did not create us to be disembodied spirits, but flesh-and-blood human beings.
(d) Grace--that coming into the presence of God is based upon His grace.

3. Who was the theologian that Metaxas reports Bonhoeffer lobbied to have placed in the University of Berlin that the Nazis rejected?
(a) Emil Brunner.
(b) Karl Barth.
(c) Erwin Sutz.
(d) Georg Wobbermin.

4. How does Metaxas explain Bonhoeffer's view of the relationship of the church to the world?
(a) The church had to be as wise as serpents but as gentle as doves.
(b) The church was to activate itself to fight against what was evil in the eyes of God.
(c) The church was to speak into the world and to be a voice in the world, so it had an obligation to speak out against things that did not affect it directly.
(d) The church was called to obedient even unto death.

5. Who does Metaxas report to be the professor who became the greatest influence over Bonhoeffer's life?
(a) Adolf von Harnack.
(b) Karl Barth.
(c) Adolf Deissman.
(d) Karl Holl.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Metaxas explain the Nuremberg laws affected the Jews?

2. What question regarding the reformation became increasingly important to Bonhoeffer as the Nazis became increasingly demanding of the Lutheran church?

3. What does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer discovered of Spanish professors and contemporary Spanish writers?

4. What was the reason that Bonhoeffer felt a separation from one of his mentors in Germany, Karl Barth, according to Metaxas?

5. 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?

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