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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 observation on prayer, cited by Metaxas, that Bonhoeffer made after observing prostitutes attending a Catholic Mass at Sacre Coeur?
(a) "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."
(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) "When our will whole heartedly enters in the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly."
(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."

2. 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?
(a) Bonhoeffer was thinking about God's call of discipleship and its cost.
(b) Bonhoeffer was thinking about how to get the world involved in dealing with Hitler's social and religious agenda.
(c) Bonhoeffer was thinking about permanently leaving Germany and renouncing his citizenship.
(d) Bonhoeffer was thinking about how he could best influence Germany's leaders.

3. What statement did Bonhoeffer make in a lecture titled, "The Question of the Boundaries of the Church and Church Union", was criticized by his supporters as being a piece of false doctrine?
(a) "Those who commit themselves to Hitler have removed themselves from the hope of salvation."
(b) "One cannot be both Christian and National Socialist."
(c) "Whoever knowingly separates himself from the Confessing Church in Germany separates himself from salvation."
(d) "The National Socialists are making Germans the enemies of Christ."

4. What decision did Hitler make in October, 1933, that further catapulted his popularity with Germans?
(a) To enforce the Enabling Acts.
(b) To prevent Jews from serving in Christian churches.
(c) To pull out of the League of Nations.
(d) To relocate Jews to concentration camps.

5. For what reason does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer left London for Berlin?
(a) Because he felt the need to pick up his opposition to Hitler in his homeland.
(b) To report for duty as the imminent head of the first seminary in the Confessing Church.
(c) To organize his associated in the Confessing Church for a more effective stand against the Nazis.
(d) Because the Foreign Ministry of the Government had ordered him home.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what reason does Metaxas report that Bonhoeffer and Hermann Sasse wrote the Bethel Confession?

2. How did Germans consider the Weimar Republic, according to Metaxas?

3. What was the date of Bonhoeffer's Memorial Service, according to Metaxas?

4. What part of Bonhoeffer's trip to New York does Metaxas suggest had the most influence on his changed preaching style?

5. What does Metaxas suggest to be the internal struggle regarding military service that troubled Bonhoeffer?

(see the answer key)

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