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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 20, 21 and 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are three Freedoms that Bishop George Bell asked in the Name of the Gospel for Christians in the German Church?
(a) Freedom of speech, press, and assembly.
(b) Freedom to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Freedom of assembly, and Freedom of dissent with the government.ospel for Christians in the German Church?
(c) Freedom to peach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Freedom of the printed word and assembly, Freedom of the Church to instruct its youth in the principles of Christianity.
(d) Freedom to stand on biblical doctrine, Freedom of dissent with the government, and Freedom to instruct its youth the principles of Christianity.

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

3. 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 question the state, help the state's victims, and work against the state, if necessary.
(b) 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.
(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 separate itself from the state, make itself the source of self-sufficiency works, and accept anyone who will accept its moral limits.

4. 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) An increasing exclusionary view of grace.
(c) A hard-line interpretation of the bible.
(d) A series of illnesses and generally declining health.

5. What does Metaxas suggest prevented Bonhoeffer from accepting his grandmother's encouragement to take a trip to India to visit Ghandi?
(a) An opportunity to travel to Rome.
(b) A lack of funding.
(c) His birthday.
(d) A concussion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What dramatic event greeted Bonhoeffer as 1938 was beginning, according to Metaxas?

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

4. What was the question that Metaxas claims Jean Lassere put to Bonhoeffer that led him to become involved in the ecumenical movement?

5. What does Metaxas report to be the focus of Bonhoeffer's thoughts in London while some of his colleagues were concentrating on political battles against Nazi intrusion of the church?

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