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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 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 giving a Christian rebuttal to the election of Hitler.
(b) Bonhoeffer was alerting his listeners of the dangers of Hitler.
(c) Bonhoeffer was providing a Biblical analysis of Hitler's election.
(d) 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.

2. Who does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer's first love to be?
(a) Grete von Dohnanyi.
(b) Elizabeth Zinn.
(c) Maria von Wedemeyer.
(d) Emmi Delbruck.

3. To what did Metaxas credit much of Luther's bitterness toward the Jews and others at the end of his life?
(a) A legalistic view of sin.
(b) A hard-line interpretation of the bible.
(c) An increasing exclusionary view of grace.
(d) A series of illnesses and generally declining health.

4. What does Metaxas report to be the subject of Bonhoeffer's first sermon in Barcelona?
(a) The comparison between a creationist view of origins and a Darwinist approach.
(b) The evils of judging based upon race.
(c) An analysis between the historical critical view of the bible and the view of revelation.
(d) The difference between a faith based on human moral efforts and one based on god's grace.

5. What were the two reasons Metaxas cites that Bonhoeffer decided to lead two German congregations in London?
(a) To participate in honest "parish work" and to separate from the church struggles in Germany to gain perspective on the bigger picture.
(b) To practically apply what he had learned of ministry and to prepare to become a German ex-patriot as the Nazis continued to absorb power.
(c) To minister freely without Nazi intrusions and to restore his energy for challenges in Germany that he knew were to come.
(d) To inform England of the turmoil coming to Germany and to safely lead a church insurrection from outside of Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the date of Bonhoeffer's death, according to Metaxas?

2. How does Metaxas explain the affect of the Aryan Paragraph on the German Church?

3. What threat did Theodor Heckel make against Bonhoeffer to make him stop his attempts to oppose the German church from England?

4. How did Metaxas define the Aryan Paragraph?

5. Who was accused of burning down the Reichstag, according to Metaxas?

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