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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 2, 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Metaxas suggest prevented Bonhoeffer from accepting his grandmother's encouragement to take a trip to India to visit Ghandi?
(a) A lack of funding.
(b) An opportunity to travel to Rome.
(c) A concussion.
(d) His birthday.

4. How does Metaxas report a member of Igel described Bonhoeffer?
(a) "Far more rooted in his home than was customary among his fellow students."
(b) "Generally patriotic."
(c) "Extremely secure and self-confident, not vain, but 'able to tolerate criticism.'"
(d) "A Champion of the kaiser and the policies of Bismarck."

5. According to Metaxas, to what did ideas and beliefs have to relate before Bonhoeffer would consider them worthwhile?
(a) The universal catholic church.
(b) The world of reality outside one's mind.
(c) The observations of great historians.
(d) The Bible.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom does Metaxas report that Bonhoeffer's mother, Clara von Hase, took piano lessons?.

2. What interests did Bonhoeffer's mother pass to her daughter?

3. Who taught Bonhoeffer's nanny, Kathe van Horn, Christian concepts that challenged Lutheran orthodoxies of the day?

4. Upon what Christian principal was the Barman Declaration that rejected Nazi influence over the German church based, according to Metaxas?

5. What does Metaxas report to be the occupations of Bonhoeffer's parents?

(see the answer key)

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