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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14, 15 and 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Metaxas claim to have set the mood of Britons regarding their attitude toward Germans?
(a) A government propaganda campaign that vilified all Germans for the sake of winning WWII.
(b) Emotional duress caused by the loss of so many loved ones during the war.
(c) National exhaustion after fighting such a long and violent war.
(d) A Desire of all Britons to put the ware behind them and restore international relations.

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

3. How does Metaxas report that Bonhoeffer's parents learned of his death?
(a) From watching the video of his execution on a movie theater news reel.
(b) By receiving a letter from the commandant of Flossenburg concentration camp.
(c) By receiving a phone call from one of Bonhoeffers survivors after his release from Flossenburg concentration camp.
(d) By listening to the broadcast of his memorial service on the Radio.

4. What threat did Theodor Heckel make against Bonhoeffer to make him stop his attempts to oppose the German church from England?
(a) Heckel pointed out that the government knew where Bonhoeffer's family lived.
(b) Heckel said that if Bonhoeffer returned he could be put in a concentration camp.
(c) Heckel implied that Bonhoeffer's activities with non-German church leaders were considered treasonous.
(d) Heckel said that he could use his position to have his degrees rescinded.

5. What question regarding the reformation became increasingly important to Bonhoeffer as the Nazis became increasingly demanding of the Lutheran church?
(a) Did the reformation go wrong by moving from a sect to a church.
(b) Did Christianity have too close of a relationship with pagan culture when the catholic church became officially recognized.
(c) Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people?
(d) Can there really be a separation of church and state?

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Of the students with whom Bonhoeffer socialized while in New York, which does Metaxas claim had the greatest influence?

3. At what age does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer completed his second postdoctoral thesis?

4. How does Metaxas claim Hitler viewed Christianity and the church?

5. Why does Metaxas suggest the students in Bonhoeffer's confirmation class in Wedding were different from similar children in classes he taught in Harlem?

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