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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. Metaxas quotes Eberhard Bethge as claiming that Bonhoeffer grew up in a family that believed what about learning?
(a) "That the Bonhoeffer family believed that all families should have the opportunity to have free, public education provided for their children."
(b) "That learning is not given, it is captured and taken by those who most desire it."
(c) "that ... the essence of learning lay not in a formal education but in the deeply rooted obligation to be guardians of a great historical heritage and intellectual tradition."
(d) "That learning only comes from taking risks that often result in failure."

2. How does Metaxas claim Karl Bonhoeffer influenced Berlin?
(a) Karl Bonhoeffer was credited with protecting Berlin from the influences of Jung and Freud.
(b) Karl Bonhoeffer influenced leaders of Berlin of the danger of imperialism.
(c) Karl Bonhoeffer examined the connection between production and economic health.
(d) Karl Bonhoeffer was considered to be a pioneer in the scientific investigation of metaphysical activities of the mind.

3. How does Metaxas describe the "Thursday Circle"?
(a) A discussion group of young men Bohnoeffer personally selected.
(b) A group of friends who gathered at 14 Wangenheimstrasse.
(c) The children in his Sunday school class who would come to his house.
(d) A study group with which he met as he worked through his doctorate.

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 ice skating on the canals in the morning.
(b) He met her while on a tour to Breslau.
(c) He met her at an "open evening" at the house of physicist Oscar meyer.
(d) He met her in her role as an assistant to Karl Wernicke, an internationally renowned professor of psychiatry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what does Metaxas focus "Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy" upon?

2. Who does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer's first love to be?

3. What does Metaxas suggest prevented Bonhoeffer from accepting his grandmother's encouragement to take a trip to India to visit Ghandi?

4. Toward the end of 1923, what does Metaxas claim could be bought with 100,000 marks?

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

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