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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. Why does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer became a soldier?
(a) Because he felt an obligation to offer his service to the benefit of the German Empire.
(b) Because he became empathetic with a nationalist movement that identified the Treaty of Versailles as the cause of Germany's economic and social problems.
(c) Because he was conscripted into militia service as the limits placed on the German military by the Treaty of Versailles were insufficient to protect Germany from enemies and insurrections.
(d) Because military service was expected by his strict father.

2. How had the relationship come to be known to Maria's mother, according to Metaxas?
(a) Maria confessed her love for Bonhoeffer directly to her mother.
(b) Through Maria's brother, Max von Wedemeyer.
(c) Through Maria's grandmother, Ruth von Kleist-Retzow.
(d) Bonhoeffer told her through correspondence.

3. How did Bonhoeffer characterize German emigres in Barcelona, according to a quote used by Metaxas?
(a) Detached and suspicious.
(b) Informed and eager for news from home.
(c) Materialistic and not intellectual.
(d) Lonely and disconnected.

4. While Bonhoeffer was in London, who does Metaxas identify as the church leader who became his most important contact in the ecumenical movement?
(a) Erwin Sutz.
(b) Franz Hildebrandt.
(c) Karl Barth.
(d) George Bell.

5. Why does Metaxas identify Bethge as an important figure for Bonhoeffer's legacy?
(a) Bethge would preserve many of Bonhoeffer's writings and distribute them through the world.
(b) Bonhoeffer would confide in Bethge about some of his bouts with depression.
(c) Bethge would pick up Bonhoeffer's ministry after he was sent to prison.
(d) Bethge would keep very close contact with Bonhoeffer during his time in prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Metaxas, after Bonhoeffer had returned to Germany from New York, how did he view theology?

2. What was the date of Bonhoeffer's death, according to Metaxas?

3. How was Bonhoeffer defined by an ordainant from Finkewalde Seminary quoted by Metaxas?

4. What former theological nemesis of Bonhoeffer's does Metaxas report to have joined a conspiracy against Hitler?

5. What does Metaxas report to be the response of the German Christians to the choice of Friedrich von Bodelschwing as Reichsbischof?

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