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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Metaxas indicate Deutsche Hilfsverein affected Bonhoeffer?
(a) He saw how people whose businesses failed and those who were caught in poverty or crime lived.
(b) He learned how Germany was influencing the governments and cultures of other countries.
(c) It helped him with the realization of how his German heritage would direct his life.
(d) He saw the terrible nature of Nazi anti-semitism.

3. To what did Metaxas credit much of Luther's bitterness toward the Jews and others at the end of his life?
(a) An increasing exclusionary view of grace.
(b) A hard-line interpretation of the bible.
(c) A legalistic view of sin.
(d) A series of illnesses and generally declining health.

4. Who taught Bonhoeffer's nanny, Kathe van Horn, Christian concepts that challenged Lutheran orthodoxies of the day?
(a) Count Zinzendorf.
(b) She taught herself.
(c) John Calvin.
(d) Martin Luther.

5. How did Germans consider the Weimar Republic, according to Metaxas?
(a) As preferable to Bolshevism.
(b) As a logical extension from the days of the Kaiser who ruled over the united Germanic tribes.
(c) As an unpleasant political has forced on them by their enemies...who wanted Germany to be weak anyway.
(d) As just another political arrangement designed to empower the wealthy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Metaxas describe the "Thursday Circle"?

2. What does status does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer attained upon his death?

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

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 was Bonhoeffer's view of philosophy, according to Metaxas?

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