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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 did Bonhoeffer claim to be the two main questions that young theologians brought to him in a letter to Karl Barth that was cited by Metaxas?
(a) How do I learn to pray? How do I learn to read the Bible?
(b) What should be our view toward the Jews? Aren't we to honor the government since it was ordained by God?
(c) How do I minister the Gospel under the opposition of the government? How do I protect my flock from the government?
(d) Should we strive to work within the government to change those practices that are immoral? Aren't we as Christians to humbly submit to the governing authority?

2. What did Bonhoeffer believe to be the future of theological education in Germany, according to a letter cited by Metaxas?
(a) "Christians will have to seek protection from international ecumenical movements to intercede between authoritarian governments and doctrinal freedom."
(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) "Churches will have to become invisible and protective if they are to teach the Gospel in the future."
(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."

3. How was Bonhoeffer defined by an ordainant from Finkewalde Seminary quoted by Metaxas?
(a) Bonhoeffer was, "...a lightning rod for controversy and his persistent defiance of the government had him and his friends in constant turmoil."
(b) Bonhoeffer was either fool-hardy or the bravest man I ever knew."
(c) Bonhoeffer was, "...a man who believes in what he thinks and does what he believes in."
(d) "For Bonhoeffer there was no compromise when it came to living out biblical truth."

4. What does Metaxas use for the information upon which he builds his book?
(a) Public records of Bonhoeffers activities as a spy.
(b) Interviews of Bonhoeffer's intimates.
(c) Bonhoeffer's own writings.
(d) The collected works of Bonhoeffer's biographers.

5. Why does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer often mentioned the Tower of Babel in his sermons?
(a) Because he felt that too many efforts by church leaders were misdirected.
(b) To link the Nazis attempts to control the church with man's "religious" attempt to reach heaven on his own strength.
(c) To communicate with his supporters that he saw the attempts of the Nazis to be destined for failure.
(d) To prove to the Nazis that Old Testament passages had modern applications.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Metaxas claim to have complicated relations between England and Germany while Bonhoeffer was in London?

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

3. What does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer's struggle with avoiding military service as Germany prepared for war proves regarding his thinking?

4. What decision did Hitler make in October, 1933, that further catapulted his popularity with Germans?

5. Why didn't the suicide plan involving Major Rudolf-Christoph von Gersdorff to kill Hitler with bombs hiding in Gersdorff's overcoat while Hitler attended a Hero's Memorial Day, according to Metaxas?

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