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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26 and 27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Metaxas claim the movie "All Quiet on the Western Front" affected Bonhoeffer?
(a) It made him suspicious of Jewish film makers.
(b) It influenced him to become a pacifist.
(c) It led him to believe that children should not be allowed into serious movies.
(d) It caused him to rethink his thoughts about the French.

2. What was the date of Bonhoeffer's Memorial Service, according to Metaxas?
(a) April 9, 1945.
(b) May 8, 1945.
(c) August 15, 1945.
(d) July 27, 1945.

3. What seeming contradiction of Bonhoeffer's was amplified by the war, according to Metaxas?
(a) Bonhoeffer would not join the military, but he encouraged others to join.
(b) Bonhoeffer would not be willing to kill as a soldier, but he was willing to conspire to kill Hitler.
(c) Bonhoeffer was not a pacifist, but he did not support wars.
(d) Bonhoeffer could not fight for Hitler's Germany, but he was extraordinarily supportive of those who did.

4. What was a criticism that Bonhoeffer made of his head pastor in Barcelona, Friedrich Olbricht?
(a) Olbricht was, "Too demanding of his expectations that I understand all the challenges of his pastorate."
(b) Olbricht had, "...lost his zeal for the church and had become disinterested in applying biblical truths to the modern world."
(c) Olbricht, "...has...done nothing in the was of addressing the younger generation in his parish."
(d) Olbricht was gone too much and left too many of the responsibilities of the parish to him.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was a recurring them that Bonhoeffer taught in the years before he became involved in the illegal seminaries of the Confessing Church, according to Metaxas?

4. What former theological nemesis of Bonhoeffer's does Metaxas report to have joined a conspiracy against Hitler?

5. What does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer recognized while he planned to carry out his engagement with Maria and proceed with plans to assassinate Hitler?

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