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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. What was the politically dangerous message that Metaxas reports Bonhoeffer made in a sermon at Trinity Church in Berlin one month after Hitler became Chancellor?
(a) "The Church has only one altar, the altar of the Almighty...before which all creatures must kneel...."
(b) "The Jews remain to this day the chosen seed of God, from whom we, the Church of Jesus Christ, are the multitude of the promise to Abraham."
(c) "We have only one God, and His only Son was the King of the Jews."
(d) "Who will you worship, the God of the Bible, or the Fuherer of Germany?"

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

3. What was Bonhoeffer's view of philosophy, according to Metaxas?
(a) Bonhoeffer considered philosophy to be man's search for truth apart from God.
(b) Bonhoeffer believed that one could not become a solid philosopher without studying theology.
(c) Bonhoeffer considered a theologian and philosopher to be the same thing.
(d) Bonhoeffer believed that one could not become a solid theologian without studying philosophy.

4. What does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer recognized while he planned to carry out his engagement with Maria and proceed with plans to assassinate Hitler?
(a) He felt that he had cut his ties with the church and started making decisions that were self serving.
(b) God wants his children to operate out of freedom and joy to do what was right and good, not out of fear of making mistakes.
(c) He knew that he was facing by the SS and decided to finish some things that he had always wanted to do.
(d) Life is not as easy as applying principles that define sin and righteousness.

5. How does Metaxas claim that Operation Flash got it's name?
(a) It got it's name because they had planned to have a sniper shoot Hitler when a spotlight came on him during a Nazi rally.
(b) It was a plan to put a suicide bomber in a meeting with Hitler.
(c) Because it was a plan to blow up Hitler's plane while he was being flown over Minsk.
(d) It was a plan to set fire to Hitler's home.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What quote does Metaxas pull from a sermon that Bonhoeffer gave in Barcelona while his parents were visiting?

3. How does Metaxas report that Bonhoeffer's parents learned of his death?

4. What statement did Bonhoeffer make in a lecture titled, "The Question of the Boundaries of the Church and Church Union", was criticized by his supporters as being a piece of false doctrine?

5. According to Metaxas, upon what basis were Jews persecuted in Nazi Germany?

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