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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. How did Bonhoeffer characterize German emigres in Barcelona, according to a quote used by Metaxas?
(a) Materialistic and not intellectual.
(b) Informed and eager for news from home.
(c) Detached and suspicious.
(d) Lonely and disconnected.

2. According to Metaxas, upon what basis were Jews persecuted in Nazi Germany?
(a) Jews were persecuted on racial grounds.
(b) Jews were persecuted on economic grounds.
(c) Jews were persecuted on political grounds.
(d) Jews were persecuted on religious grounds.

3. Why does Metaxas claim that the Nazis used Martin Luther's late writings regarding Jews to promote their agenda against the Jews.
(a) Because Luther's defined what it was to be a German Christian.
(b) Because Hitler adulated Luther.
(c) Because Luther's views met with the scientific foundation of the Nazis' racial policies.
(d) Because the Nazis respected Luther's theological perspective.

4. To what conclusion does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer arrived in a journal entry regarding his observations of art and his criticism of art historians?
(a) "I believe that interpretation is not necessary in art."
(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) "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."

5. 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) A concussion.
(c) His birthday.
(d) An opportunity to travel to Rome.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what did Bonhoeffer compare a crowd at a bullfight, according to Metaxas?

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

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

4. Why does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer did not marry his first love?

5. What does Metaxas point out to be the motivation of Luther's condemnations of the Jews that he wrote late in his life?

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