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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 explain Bonhoeffer's view of the relationship of the church to the world?
(a) The church was to speak into the world and to be a voice in the world, so it had an obligation to speak out against things that did not affect it directly.
(b) The church had to be as wise as serpents but as gentle as doves.
(c) The church was to activate itself to fight against what was evil in the eyes of God.
(d) The church was called to obedient even unto death.

2. What does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer saw would destroy Germany after the defeat of France?
(a) He saw that they had become mindlessly controlled by the Nazi view for Germany.
(b) He saw that Germany would be destroyed by success.
(c) He saw that Hitler would be able to lead them to their own destruction.
(d) He saw that now that Germans were turning back history, Germans would be taken by jealousy for each other.

3. According to Metaxas, after Bonhoeffer had returned to Germany from New York, how did he view theology?
(a) He believed that theology was to be protected from the Nazis.
(b) He believed that theology must lead to the practical aspects of how to live as a Christian.
(c) He believed that theology was what separated Christians from pagans.
(d) He believed that theology was the basis by which the Bible should be studied.

4. To what conclusion does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer arrived in a journal entry regarding his observations of art and his criticism of art historians?
(a) "Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
(b) "We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies."
(c) "The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."
(d) "I believe that interpretation is not necessary in art."

5. What does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer discovered of Spanish professors and contemporary Spanish writers?
(a) They showed the same disciplined thought as his father.
(b) They were eager to receive Bonhoeffer's thoughts about ecumenicalism.
(c) They were bitterly anti-clerical.
(d) They provided an elevated level of conversation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Metaxas suggest prevented Bonhoeffer from accepting his grandmother's encouragement to take a trip to India to visit Ghandi?

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

3. What does Metaxas report to be the commissar order?

4. What happened to Gersdorff after his failed attempt?

5. What accomplishment of Bonhoeffer's maternal great grandfather, Karl August von Hase, does Metaxas credit with fueling Bonhoeffer's interest in Rome?

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