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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 suggest prevented Bonhoeffer from accepting his grandmother's encouragement to take a trip to India to visit Ghandi?
(a) His birthday.
(b) An opportunity to travel to Rome.
(c) A concussion.
(d) A lack of funding.

2. How does Metaxas describe the mood of the people where Bonhoeffer was memorialized?
(a) The crowd at the Vatican was subdued and respectful as the Pope gave his observations.
(b) Bonhoeffer's former classmates and professors were somber as each offered a eulogy.
(c) Flossenburg camp survivors were subdued and sought to avoid detection.
(d) It seemed strange to many Britons to honor a German citizen after suffering from the war with Germany.

3. How does Metaxas show how Eberhard Bethge explained how Bonhoeffer could accept the paradox of being a Christian involved in an assassination plot against a head of state?
(a) Metaxas showed that Bonhoeffer's fate was to eliminate Hitler, the cause of war, or accept a position in the military in which he would be involved in eliminate people with whom he had no disagreement.
(b) Bethge explained that as the Hitler regime became more murderous, mere confession of beliefs with out action essentially became complicity with the murders.
(c) 3. Bethge said that Bonhoeffer knew that his role in the assassination attempt was a sin that fell outside of his Christian faith.
(d) 4. Bethge said that Bonhoeffer told him that God and instructed him how to kill Hitler.

4. 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 vast collection of lyric poetry of Horace and Catullus.
(b) Von Hase's extensive journals and geographic records of his trips to Rome.
(c) Von Hase's 20 trips there and the strong ties he cultivated through them.
(d) Von Hase's many mission trips with Roman Catholic Officials.

5. What does Metaxas report to be the focus of Bonhoeffer's speech, "The Younger Generation's Altered Concept of Leadership", that he gave two days after Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany?
(a) Bonhoeffer was giving a philosophical dissent with a popular, decades old, concept, the Fuhrer Principle, that promoted the belief that Germany needed a strong central leader.
(b) Bonhoeffer was giving a Christian rebuttal to the election of Hitler.
(c) Bonhoeffer was alerting his listeners of the dangers of Hitler.
(d) Bonhoeffer was providing a Biblical analysis of Hitler's election.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what did Metaxas credit much of Luther's bitterness toward the Jews and others at the end of his life?

2. Who does Metaxas identify as the individual who was largely responsible for helping Bonhoeffer have a purpose for going to America before Germany started a war?

3. What does Metaxas identify as the major difference between the ecumenical movement and Bonhoeffer with regard to WWII?

4. What does Metaxas cite as the first reason that Bonhoeffer joined the Abwehr?

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

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