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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. What accomplishment of Bonhoeffer's maternal great grandfather, Karl August von Hase, does Metaxas credit with fueling Bonhoeffer's interest in Rome?
(a) Von Hase's many mission trips with Roman Catholic Officials.
(b) Von Hase's 20 trips there and the strong ties he cultivated through them.
(c) Von Hase's extensive journals and geographic records of his trips to Rome.
(d) Von Hase's vast collection of lyric poetry of Horace and Catullus.

2. Who was the theologian that Metaxas reports Bonhoeffer lobbied to have placed in the University of Berlin that the Nazis rejected?
(a) Emil Brunner.
(b) Georg Wobbermin.
(c) Karl Barth.
(d) Erwin Sutz.

3. What does Metaxas report to be the commissar order?
(a) A direct order that all prisoners taken by the German military were to be placed under the direct command of an SS commissar.
(b) A military order that all captured Soviet military leaders were to be shot and killed.
(c) A military order that ordered that all Soviet commissars be captured and grilled for torture techniques.
(d) A direct order that all German military officers would be assigned a Nazi commissar to direct them in the proper German method of conducting combat.

4. What does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer found when he visited Friedrich von Bodelschwing's Bethel community in Bielefeld?
(a) Von Bodelschwing preparing to leave the settlement so he could fulfill his duties as Reichsbischof.
(b) A town that had been taken over by the German Christians and had begun marking many of the residents for elimination.
(c) A whole town with schools, churches, farms, factories, shops, and housing for nurses.
(d) A modest hospital where epileptic care was given.

5. What part of Bonhoeffer's trip to New York does Metaxas suggest had the most influence on his changed preaching style?
(a) His viewing of "All Quiet on the Western Front" with a Frenchman.
(b) His involvement in the debate between secularists and fundamentalists.
(c) His road trip to Mexico.
(d) His worship at the "negro churches".

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer discovered of Spanish professors and contemporary Spanish writers?

2. What quote does Metaxas pull from a sermon that Bonhoeffer gave in Barcelona while his parents were visiting?

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

4. What interests did Bonhoeffer's mother pass to her daughter?

5. According to Metaxas, to what did ideas and beliefs have to relate before Bonhoeffer would consider them worthwhile?

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