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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 does Metaxas point out to be the motivation of Luther's condemnations of the Jews that he wrote late in his life?
(a) They were motivated by the Jews indifference to his efforts to convert them to Christianity.
(b) They were motivated by their racial differences to europeans.
(c) They were motivated by their economic self sufficiency.
(d) They were motivated by their aloofness to general European society.

2. How does Metaxas claim the Reigchstag Fire Edict empowered the Nazis over Germany?
(a) By deporting all Communists.
(b) By abolishing the Reichstag.
(c) By suspending all personal liberties.
(d) By making all other political parties illegal.

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

4. What was Bonhoeffer's next destination after he traveled to Sweden to share information regarding the conspiracy against Hitler with Bishop George Bell, according to Metaxas.
(a) To visit his friend Ruth von Kleist-Retzow.
(b) Norway to lend support to actions taken by Norwegian bishops.
(c) He returned to Berlin to get an update on the Kreisau Circle.
(d) He was ordered to Berlin for a meeting with Theodor Heckel.

5. Why does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer, "...struggled with the 'problem' of being charming."
(a) Because it caused social problems for him.
(b) Because he was, by nature, a recluse.
(c) Because he wanted the words and logic of what he said to be the only things to which others responded.
(d) Because it was frowned upon by his father.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Metaxas suggest to be the internal struggle regarding military service that troubled Bonhoeffer?

3. Metaxas quotes Eberhard Bethge as claiming that Bonhoeffer grew up in a family that believed what about learning?

4. Why did the opponents the group, "German Christians" consider the name to be oxymoronic?

5. How did the commissar order revitalize the conspiracy to overthrow Hitler?

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