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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 and 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Metaxas claim the movie "All Quiet on the Western Front" affected Bonhoeffer?
(a) It made him suspicious of Jewish film makers.
(b) It influenced him to become a pacifist.
(c) It caused him to rethink his thoughts about the French.
(d) It led him to believe that children should not be allowed into serious movies.

2. What does Metaxas report to be Bonhoeffer's first ministry?
(a) 14 Wangenheimstrasse.
(b) Teaching and preaching to a youth Sunday school class in the Grunewald parish.
(c) The associate pastorship in Barcelona.
(d) The Thursday Circle.

3. What was the biblical text that Luther used for his sermon at Kaiser Wilhelm memorial Church, according to Metaxas?
(a) Psalm 42, "My Soul is cast down within me."
(b) 1 Peter 2:20, "For what credit is it if, when you are beaten for your faults you take it patiently? But when you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently this is commendable before God."
(c) Revelation 2:4-5: "Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou has left thy first love...."
(d) Psalm 19, "Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations."

4. How does Metaxas describe the mood of the people where Bonhoeffer was memorialized?
(a) The crowd at the Vatican was subdued and respectful as the Pope gave his observations.
(b) Flossenburg camp survivors were subdued and sought to avoid detection.
(c) Bonhoeffer's former classmates and professors were somber as each offered a eulogy.
(d) It seemed strange to many Britons to honor a German citizen after suffering from the war with Germany.

5. How does Metaxas report a member of Igel described Bonhoeffer?
(a) "Extremely secure and self-confident, not vain, but 'able to tolerate criticism.'"
(b) "Far more rooted in his home than was customary among his fellow students."
(c) "Generally patriotic."
(d) "A Champion of the kaiser and the policies of Bismarck."

Short Answer Questions

1. What observation on prayer, cited by Metaxas, that Bonhoeffer made after observing prostitutes attending a Catholic Mass at Sacre Coeur?

2. How did Bonhoeffer deal with the conduct of the students in Wedding?

3. To what conclusion does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer arrived in a journal entry regarding his observations of art and his criticism of art historians?

4. To what did Bonhoeffer compare a crowd at a bullfight, according to Metaxas?

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

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