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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 indicate Deutsche Hilfsverein affected Bonhoeffer?
(a) He saw how people whose businesses failed and those who were caught in poverty or crime lived.
(b) He learned how Germany was influencing the governments and cultures of other countries.
(c) It helped him with the realization of how his German heritage would direct his life.
(d) He saw the terrible nature of Nazi anti-semitism.

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

3. What does Metaxas report to be the subject of Bonhoeffer's first sermon in Barcelona?
(a) The difference between a faith based on human moral efforts and one based on god's grace.
(b) An analysis between the historical critical view of the bible and the view of revelation.
(c) The comparison between a creationist view of origins and a Darwinist approach.
(d) The evils of judging based upon race.

4. What does Metaxas report to be the occupations of Bonhoeffer's parents?
(a) Doctor and Lawyer.
(b) Teacher and physicist.
(c) Professor and Lawyer.
(d) Doctor and teacher.

5. Why does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer's sister Sabine and her husband, Gerhard Leibholz, choose to flee Germany when they did?
(a) They left for a better life in England.
(b) They left because they saw their relationship to Bonhoeffer as a threat to their children's safety.
(c) They left to avoid laws that would require passports of Jews to be specially marked.
(d) They left to avoid the Kristallnacht.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What are three Freedoms that Bishop George Bell asked in the Name of the Gospel for Christians in the German Church?

3. How does Metaxas claim that Operation Flash got it's name?

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

5. What does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer discovered of Spanish professors and contemporary Spanish writers?

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