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

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

3. How did Germans consider the Weimar Republic, according to Metaxas?
(a) As just another political arrangement designed to empower the wealthy.
(b) As a logical extension from the days of the Kaiser who ruled over the united Germanic tribes.
(c) As preferable to Bolshevism.
(d) As an unpleasant political has forced on them by their enemies...who wanted Germany to be weak anyway.

4. Why does Metaxas claim that the Nazis used Martin Luther's late writings regarding Jews to promote their agenda against the Jews.
(a) Because the Nazis respected Luther's theological perspective.
(b) Because Luther's views met with the scientific foundation of the Nazis' racial policies.
(c) Because Luther's defined what it was to be a German Christian.
(d) Because Hitler adulated Luther.

5. How did Bonhoeffer characterize his decision to go to Barcelona, according to Metaxas?
(a) "I made my decision based upon what was best for me and Elizabeth (Zinn)."
(b) "It happened that I went."
(c) "In spite of the protests of my parents, I decided this venture was where I was being led."
(d) "After much council and fervent prayer, I made the decision that changed my life."

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Metaxas, after Bonhoeffer had returned to Germany from New York, how did he view theology?

2. What question regarding the reformation became increasingly important to Bonhoeffer as the Nazis became increasingly demanding of the Lutheran church?

3. How was Bonhoeffer defined by an ordainant from Finkewalde Seminary quoted by Metaxas?

4. How had Bonhoeffer's relationships outside of Germany affect his view of the church, according to Metaxas?

5. How does Metaxas claim the movie "All Quiet on the Western Front" affected Bonhoeffer?

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