View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Metaxas report to be the focus of Bonhoeffer's speech, "The Younger Generation's Altered Concept of Leadership", that he gave two days after Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany?
(a) Bonhoeffer was alerting his listeners of the dangers of Hitler.
(b) Bonhoeffer was providing a Biblical analysis of Hitler's election.
(c) Bonhoeffer was giving a philosophical dissent with a popular, decades old, concept, the Fuhrer Principle, that promoted the belief that Germany needed a strong central leader.
(d) Bonhoeffer was giving a Christian rebuttal to the election of Hitler.

2. How does Metaxas describe the "Thursday Circle"?
(a) A study group with which he met as he worked through his doctorate.
(b) The children in his Sunday school class who would come to his house.
(c) A discussion group of young men Bohnoeffer personally selected.
(d) A group of friends who gathered at 14 Wangenheimstrasse.

3. Who does Metaxas report to be the professor who became the greatest influence over Bonhoeffer's life?
(a) Karl Holl.
(b) Karl Barth.
(c) Adolf Deissman.
(d) Adolf von Harnack.

4. How does Metaxas claim Hitler viewed Christianity and the church?
(a) Hitler viewed the church pragmatically and appealed to it to gain power.
(b) Hitler viewed the church as a barrier to his power and attempted to have it destroyed.
(c) Hitler was ambivalent to the church and focused only on his political fortunes.
(d) Hitler was a faithful Catholic and encouraged members of his entourage to remain active in their congregations.

5. What quote does Metaxas pull from a sermon that Bonhoeffer gave in Barcelona while his parents were visiting?
(a) "[I]f you want to find eternity, you must serve the times."
(b) "Christ has given scarcely any ethical prescriptions that wer not to be found already with the contemporary Jewish rabbis or in pagan literature."
(c) "The essence of Christianity is not about religion at all, but about the person of Christ."
(d) " I fear that Christians who venture to stand on earth on only one leg will stand in heaven on only one leg too."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Metaxas, upon what basis were Jews persecuted in Nazi Germany?

3. Why does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer became a soldier?

4. According to Metaxas, how did Karl Bonhoeffer, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's father, meet Bonhoeffer's mother, the former Paula von Hase?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 648 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample