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

2. According to Metaxas, upon what basis were Jews persecuted in Nazi Germany?
(a) Jews were persecuted on economic grounds.
(b) Jews were persecuted on political grounds.
(c) Jews were persecuted on racial grounds.
(d) Jews were persecuted on religious grounds.

3. What did Bonhoeffer believe to be the future of theological education in Germany, according to a letter cited by Metaxas?
(a) "Churches will have to become invisible and protective if they are to teach the Gospel in the future."
(b) "The entire education of the younger generation of theologians belongs today in church cloister-like schools, in which pure doctrine, the Sermon on the Mount and worship are taken seriously...."
(c) "Christians will have to seek protection from international ecumenical movements to intercede between authoritarian governments and doctrinal freedom."
(d) "The only hope for teaching any biblical truth is to find areas of compromise with the current regime and willingly take those for the immediate future."

4. Upon what does Metaxas focus "Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy" upon?
(a) Bonhoeffer's determination to understand and live God's will.
(b) Bonhoeffer's theological training.
(c) Bonhoeffer's evolving personal relationships.
(d) Bonhoeffer's clandestine connections that brought him to be involved in the plot to assassinate Adolph Hitler.

5. What was the biblical text that Luther used for his sermon at Kaiser Wilhelm memorial Church, according to Metaxas?
(a) Psalm 19, "Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations."
(b) Psalm 42, "My Soul is cast down within me."
(c) 1 Peter 2:20, "For what credit is it if, when you are beaten for your faults you take it patiently? But when you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently this is commendable before God."
(d) Revelation 2:4-5: "Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou has left thy first love...."

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Metaxas claim Reformation Sunday is a patriotic holiday in Germany?

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

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

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

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

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