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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26 and 27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of the students with whom Bonhoeffer socialized while in New York, which does Metaxas claim had the greatest influence?
(a) Jean Lassere.
(b) Erwin Sutz.
(c) Paul Lehman.
(d) Albert Franklin Fisher.

2. What theological battle was being waged when Bonhoeffer arrived in America, according to Metaxas?
(a) A battle between liberals and fundamentalists.
(b) A battle between Catholics and Protestants.
(c) A battle between creationists and evolutionists.
(d) A battle between Calvinists and Armenians.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the question that Metaxas claims Jean Lassere put to Bonhoeffer that led him to become involved in the ecumenical movement?

2. Metaxas quotes Eberhard Bethge as claiming that Bonhoeffer grew up in a family that believed what about learning?

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

4. What does Metaxas claim to have complicated relations between England and Germany while Bonhoeffer was in London?

5. Why does Metaxas claim Reformation Sunday is a patriotic holiday in Germany?

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