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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 did Metaxas define the Aryan Paragraph?
(a) Government employees must be of "Aryan" stock; anyone of Jewish descent would lose his job.
(b) The true German race is defined by the Aryan ideal that all government employees will be racially pure.
(c) It was a paragraph in a document put out by the Ministry of Health that declared all but the Aryan race was inferior and disease ridden.
(d) It was a paragraph within the Enabling Acts that forbid anyone but Aryans from working in government.

2. What does Metaxas claim to have given Bonhoeffer any value during his trip to New York?
(a) The casual attitudes of seminary students.
(b) The socially focused church activities.
(c) The open debate regarding social issues.
(d) Negro Churches.

3. 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."

4. Why does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer became a soldier?
(a) Because he became empathetic with a nationalist movement that identified the Treaty of Versailles as the cause of Germany's economic and social problems.
(b) Because he was conscripted into militia service as the limits placed on the German military by the Treaty of Versailles were insufficient to protect Germany from enemies and insurrections.
(c) Because military service was expected by his strict father.
(d) Because he felt an obligation to offer his service to the benefit of the German Empire.

5. What decision did Hitler make in October, 1933, that further catapulted his popularity with Germans?
(a) To pull out of the League of Nations.
(b) To relocate Jews to concentration camps.
(c) To prevent Jews from serving in Christian churches.
(d) To enforce the Enabling Acts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Metaxas use for the information upon which he builds his book?

2. What does Metaxas identify as the difference between the theological debate in the U.S. in the 1930's and those in which Bonhoeffer participated as he was earning his doctorate degrees?

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

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

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

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