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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. Upon what does Metaxas focus "Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy" upon?
(a) Bonhoeffer's determination to understand and live God's will.
(b) Bonhoeffer's evolving personal relationships.
(c) Bonhoeffer's clandestine connections that brought him to be involved in the plot to assassinate Adolph Hitler.
(d) Bonhoeffer's theological training.

2. Why does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer did not marry his first love?
(a) Because Bonhoeffer's travels around the world kept the relationship from growing.
(b) Because Bonhoeffer would not allow other people to get close to him.
(c) Because she was Jewish.
(d) Because she married another man while he was travelling.

3. Toward the end of 1923, what does Metaxas claim could be bought with 100,000 marks?
(a) A bottle of wine and strawberries.
(b) A Mercedes Benz.
(c) A week of groceries.
(d) A months rent.

4. According to Metaxas, how did Karl Bonhoeffer, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's father, meet Bonhoeffer's mother, the former Paula von Hase?
(a) He met her while on a tour to Breslau.
(b) He met her in her role as an assistant to Karl Wernicke, an internationally renowned professor of psychiatry.
(c) He met her while ice skating on the canals in the morning.
(d) He met her at an "open evening" at the house of physicist Oscar meyer.

5. What is the explanation that Metaxas gives for Bonhoeffer's willingness to join the same fraternity his father, Igel, when he attended Berlin University?
(a) Igel was politically moderate and patriotic, but not nationalistic.
(b) Igel members were well known for their elaborate hats and dueling scars.
(c) Igel eschewed the use of alcohol.
(d) Igel had direct political connections to the line of German Chancellors dating back to the 19th century.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Metaxas claim to have set the mood of Britons regarding their attitude toward Germans?

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

3. What does Metaxas report to be the conditions in Germany that inspired Adolph Hitler to lead the Bierhall Putch?

4. To what did Metaxas credit Bonhoeffer's intellectual independence and confidence in contradicting his theology professors?

5. Of what nation does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer to be a citizen?

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