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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 through 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Metaxas report a member of Igel described Bonhoeffer?
(a) "Far more rooted in his home than was customary among his fellow students."
(b) "Extremely secure and self-confident, not vain, but 'able to tolerate criticism.'"
(c) "A Champion of the kaiser and the policies of Bismarck."
(d) "Generally patriotic."

2. According to Metaxas, to what did ideas and beliefs have to relate before Bonhoeffer would consider them worthwhile?
(a) The observations of great historians.
(b) The universal catholic church.
(c) The world of reality outside one's mind.
(d) The Bible.

3. What does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer discovered of Spanish professors and contemporary Spanish writers?
(a) They provided an elevated level of conversation.
(b) They were bitterly anti-clerical.
(c) They showed the same disciplined thought as his father.
(d) They were eager to receive Bonhoeffer's thoughts about ecumenicalism.

4. What was a recurring them that Bonhoeffer taught in the years before he became involved in the illegal seminaries of the Confessing Church, according to Metaxas?
(a) Grace--that coming into the presence of God is based upon His grace.
(b) Incarnation--that God did not create us to be disembodied spirits, but flesh-and-blood human beings.
(c) Transubstantiation--that Christians take the blood and body of Christ in communion.
(d) Original Sin--that man's condition is based upon the sin of Adam.

5. How did Bonhoeffer characterize his decision to go to Barcelona, according to Metaxas?
(a) "I made my decision based upon what was best for me and Elizabeth (Zinn)."
(b) "After much council and fervent prayer, I made the decision that changed my life."
(c) "In spite of the protests of my parents, I decided this venture was where I was being led."
(d) "It happened that I went."

Short Answer Questions

1. What theological battle was being waged when Bonhoeffer arrived in America, according to Metaxas?

2. How did Bonhoeffer consider Christian opposition to Hitler's and the German Christian's manipulation of the church throughout the establishment of the Reichsbischof, according to Metaxas?

3. What German philosopher does Metaxas suggest that Hitler believed prophesied his rise to power?

4. What question regarding the reformation became increasingly important to Bonhoeffer as the Nazis became increasingly demanding of the Lutheran church?

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

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