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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 does Metaxas report to be the occupations of Bonhoeffer's parents?
(a) Teacher and physicist.
(b) Doctor and Lawyer.
(c) Professor and Lawyer.
(d) Doctor and teacher.

2. What dramatic event greeted Bonhoeffer as 1938 was beginning, according to Metaxas?
(a) Gestapo officers arrested him and 30 others during a meeting of the Confessing Church.
(b) He became part of the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler.
(c) He helped his sister and her husband leave Germany for Switzerland.
(d) He heard about Kristallnacht.

3. Why was the German Government opposed to Bonhoeffer and is ordinands traveling to visit the Swiss church, according to a quote found by Metaxas?
(a) "...because it is important that we protect the Christian solidarity of our citizens."
(b) "...because his influence is not conducive to German interests."
(c) "...because Bonhoeffer has caused no small amount of embarrassment when he has gone to other countries."
(d) "...because Bonhoeffer's presentation to the international press will bring disfavor to our leaders."

4. What event began WWII according to Metaxas?
(a) The Non-aggression Pact between Hitler and Stalin.
(b) Nazi occupation of Prague.
(c) The invasion of Poland.
(d) The Anschluss of Austria.

5. Metaxas quotes Eberhard Bethge as claiming that Bonhoeffer grew up in a family that believed what about learning?
(a) "That the Bonhoeffer family believed that all families should have the opportunity to have free, public education provided for their children."
(b) "That learning is not given, it is captured and taken by those who most desire it."
(c) "that ... the essence of learning lay not in a formal education but in the deeply rooted obligation to be guardians of a great historical heritage and intellectual tradition."
(d) "That learning only comes from taking risks that often result in failure."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Bonhoeffer first meet Eberhard Bethge, according to Metaxas?

2. Why does Metaxas claim that the Nazis used Martin Luther's late writings regarding Jews to promote their agenda against the Jews.

3. How does Metaxas claim the Reigchstag Fire Edict empowered the Nazis over Germany?

4. How does Metaxas explain Bonhoeffer's view of the relationship of the church to the world?

5. 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?

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