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

2. What does status does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer attained upon his death?
(a) Traitor legacy.
(b) Hero.
(c) Sainthood.
(d) Martyrdom.

3. Where was Bonhoeffer's memorial service, according to Metaxas?
(a) Holy Trinity Church in London, England.
(b) The Vatican.
(c) Union Theological Seminary.
(d) Flossenburg concentration camp.

4. What does Metaxas report to be Bonhoeffer's first ministry?
(a) 14 Wangenheimstrasse.
(b) Teaching and preaching to a youth Sunday school class in the Grunewald parish.
(c) The Thursday Circle.
(d) The associate pastorship in Barcelona.

5. To what conclusion does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer arrived in a journal entry regarding his observations of art and his criticism of art historians?
(a) "We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies."
(b) "Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
(c) "The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."
(d) "I believe that interpretation is not necessary in art."

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the date of Bonhoeffer's death, according to Metaxas?

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

3. Who does Metaxas report to be the professor who became the greatest influence over Bonhoeffer's life?

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

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

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