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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. To what did Bonhoeffer compare a crowd at a bullfight, according to Metaxas?
(a) The anger that his father would display when he was displeased with his actions.
(b) A vicious animal closing in for a kill.
(c) A type of bloodthirsty disregard for the dignity of life that he saw in Nazi brownshirts.
(d) The crowd from the bible yelling "crucify" at Christ.

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

3. Upon what Christian principal was the Barman Declaration that rejected Nazi influence over the German church based, according to Metaxas?
(a) That man is always attempting to become God.
(b) That God is completely unknowable except by revelation.
(c) That man is bent toward sin and is in need of redemption.
(d) That the creation cannot make itself equal to the creator.

4. What were the three conclusions that Bonhoeffer announced in his address, "The Church and the Jewish Question", in rebuttal to the "Aryan Paragraph"?
(a) The church must work with the state to see that its moral laws are consistent with God's moral laws, the church must define the political aims of its members.
(b) The church must separate itself from the state, make itself the source of self-sufficiency works, and accept anyone who will accept its moral limits.
(c) The church must recognize that government is ordained by God, rebellion against God's ordained authorities is demonic, all Christians must seek to change the state from within the state.
(d) The church must question the state, help the state's victims, and work against the state, if necessary.

5. What observation on prayer, cited by Metaxas, that Bonhoeffer made after observing prostitutes attending a Catholic Mass at Sacre Coeur?
(a) "When our will whole heartedly enters in the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly."
(b) "Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God...He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work."
(c) "It's much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity."
(d) "The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the theologian that Metaxas reports Bonhoeffer lobbied to have placed in the University of Berlin that the Nazis rejected?

2. What quote of Bonhoeffer's friend, Franz Hildebrandt, does Metaxas use to show the intellectual demands Bonhoeffer placed on those who were close to him.

3. What momentous historic event does Metaxas note took place two days after Bonhoeffer arrived in Germany, and of which he was ignorant?

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

5. What were the two reasons Metaxas cites that Bonhoeffer decided to lead two German congregations in London?

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