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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. How does Metaxas describe the "Thursday Circle"?
(a) A group of friends who gathered at 14 Wangenheimstrasse.
(b) The children in his Sunday school class who would come to his house.
(c) A discussion group of young men Bohnoeffer personally selected.
(d) A study group with which he met as he worked through his doctorate.

2. What does Metaxas claim annoyed Hitler regarding Christian teaching?
(a) That Christianity had a long tradition that could not be dismantled.
(b) That Jesus was Jewish.
(c) That Christianity taught that Jesus was the only begotten son of God.
(d) That Christianity preached meekness.

3. What relationship did Bonhoeffer have with Maria von Wedemeyer before he had seen her while visiting her grandmother?
(a) He had refused to take the task of training her for her confirmation when she was 12 because she did not seem mature enough.
(b) He had acted as an uncle to her in the absence of her father who was sent to the Russian front.
(c) He was a close friend of her brother's in the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler.
(d) He trained her as a Bible student as part of the Confessing Church.

4. Metaxas quotes Eberhard Bethge as claiming that Bonhoeffer grew up in a family that believed what about learning?
(a) "that ... the essence of learning lay not in a formal education but in the deeply rooted obligation to be guardians of a great historical heritage and intellectual tradition."
(b) "That learning is not given, it is captured and taken by those who most desire it."
(c) "That the Bonhoeffer family believed that all families should have the opportunity to have free, public education provided for their children."
(d) "That learning only comes from taking risks that often result in failure."

5. What does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer discovered of Spanish professors and contemporary Spanish writers?
(a) They showed the same disciplined thought as his father.
(b) They were eager to receive Bonhoeffer's thoughts about ecumenicalism.
(c) They were bitterly anti-clerical.
(d) They provided an elevated level of conversation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which quote does Metaxas use to reflect Hitler's attitude toward Protestant pastors?

2. Why does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer did not marry his first love?

3. How had Bonhoeffer's relationships outside of Germany affect his view of the church, according to Metaxas?

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?

5. What happened to Gersdorff after his failed attempt?

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