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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 date of Bonhoeffer's Memorial Service, according to Metaxas?
(a) July 27, 1945.
(b) May 8, 1945.
(c) August 15, 1945.
(d) April 9, 1945.

2. Who does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer's first love to be?
(a) Emmi Delbruck.
(b) Elizabeth Zinn.
(c) Maria von Wedemeyer.
(d) Grete von Dohnanyi.

3. Who does Metaxas report to be the professor who became the greatest influence over Bonhoeffer's life?
(a) Adolf Deissman.
(b) Karl Holl.
(c) Karl Barth.
(d) Adolf von Harnack.

4. How did the Treaty of Versailles play a role in protecting Hitler from a coup, according to Metaxas?
(a) The treaty prohibited such treachery as they were planning in their coup.
(b) The German generals desired to overthrow the treaty so they accepted the victories to which Hitler led them.
(c) Hitler pointed out that the treaty prohibited their jobs from existing, so he showed that his violating it was in their benefit.
(d) The treaty prohibited any action on their part unless it was taken under the advisement of the allied powers that wrote it.

5. What interests did Bonhoeffer's mother pass to her daughter?
(a) Her love of music and singing.
(b) Her passion for horticulture.
(c) Her interest in money and finance.
(d) Her religious devotion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Bohnoeffers' first impression of American theology students, according to documents cited by Metaxas.

2. How does Metaxas show how Eberhard Bethge explained how Bonhoeffer could accept the paradox of being a Christian involved in an assassination plot against a head of state?

3. What event does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer saw Psalms 74 as being a direct communication from God regarding the situation in Germany?

4. To what conclusion does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer arrived in a journal entry regarding his observations of art and his criticism of art historians?

5. What event began WWII according to Metaxas?

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