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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. At what age does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer completed his second postdoctoral thesis?
(a) 27
(b) 31
(c) 33
(d) 23

2. How did Germans consider the Weimar Republic, according to Metaxas?
(a) As preferable to Bolshevism.
(b) As just another political arrangement designed to empower the wealthy.
(c) As an unpleasant political has forced on them by their enemies...who wanted Germany to be weak anyway.
(d) As a logical extension from the days of the Kaiser who ruled over the united Germanic tribes.

3. What does Metaxas identify as the major difference between the ecumenical movement and Bonhoeffer with regard to WWII?
(a) The ecumenical movement sought to end the war, but Bonhoeffer decided that Hitler had to be assassinated.
(b) The ecumenical movement was pacifist, but Bonhoeffer was not.
(c) The ecumenical movement discouraged people from joining the military, but Bonhoeffer did not feel so empowered.
(d) The ecumenical movement believed Hitler could be negotiated with, but Bonhoeffer did not.

4. What does Metaxas report to be the commissar order?
(a) A military order that all captured Soviet military leaders were to be shot and killed.
(b) A direct order that all German military officers would be assigned a Nazi commissar to direct them in the proper German method of conducting combat.
(c) A military order that ordered that all Soviet commissars be captured and grilled for torture techniques.
(d) A direct order that all prisoners taken by the German military were to be placed under the direct command of an SS commissar.

5. What event began WWII according to Metaxas?
(a) Nazi occupation of Prague.
(b) The Non-aggression Pact between Hitler and Stalin.
(c) The Anschluss of Austria.
(d) The invasion of Poland.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the opponents the group, "German Christians" consider the name to be oxymoronic?

2. What does Metaxas report to be the focus of Bonhoeffer's speech, "The Younger Generation's Altered Concept of Leadership", that he gave two days after Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany?

3. What was the biblical text that Luther used for his sermon at Kaiser Wilhelm memorial Church, according to Metaxas?

4. What does Metaxas cite as the first reason that Bonhoeffer joined the Abwehr?

5. What quote of Bonhoeffer's friend, Franz Hildebrandt, does Metaxas use to show the intellectual demands Bonhoeffer placed on those who were close to him.

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