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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 29, 30 and 31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Bethge explained that as the Hitler regime became more murderous, mere confession of beliefs with out action essentially became complicity with the murders.
(b) 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.
(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.

2. According to Metaxas, how did Karl Bonhoeffer, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's father, meet Bonhoeffer's mother, the former Paula von Hase?
(a) He met her in her role as an assistant to Karl Wernicke, an internationally renowned professor of psychiatry.
(b) He met her while on a tour to Breslau.
(c) He met her at an "open evening" at the house of physicist Oscar meyer.
(d) He met her while ice skating on the canals in the morning.

3. What question does Metaxas raise with regard to Bonhoeffer's interest in taking a trip to India to visit Ghandi?
(a) "Was it possible that...Christ was operating among non-Christians in a way that could force the church to action?"
(b) "Why was it that a pagan could find the courage to stand on the Sermon on the Mount, but those trained in it did not know how to apply it?"
(c) "Was God bringing judgment on Christian nations by leaving them to evil and preparing to move on pagan nations that freely practiced His principles?"
(d) "What was the significance that nations with no Christian heritage were more able to stand on Christian principles of peace and love than were those nations who had been trained in them for centuries?"

4. How does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer kept informed of the turmoil involving the German church?
(a) He knew British news reporters who got timely information from Berlin.
(b) He had many phone updates from a wide number of contacts.
(c) Members of his congregations updated him through their contacts.
(d) His mother, Paula Bonhoeffer, kept him updated through her various contacts including her son-in-law, General von der Goltz.

5. What speculation does Metaxas make as to why the former Nazi official who performed medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners was placed in confinement?
(a) He had become disgusted with his work and joined the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler.
(b) Because he had come to his conscience and refused to conduct any more experiments.
(c) Because he attempted to publish his findings in a Swiss medical journal so they could be more widely used.
(d) He was found to be keeping records of what he was doing for the Nazis so he could share them with allied officials to incriminate his superiors.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Metaxas, why did the Gestapo take Bonhoeffer for execution?

2. How does Metaxas explain Bonhoeffer's view of the relationship of the church to the world?

3. What was the reason that Bonhoeffer felt a separation from one of his mentors in Germany, Karl Barth, according to Metaxas?

4. 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?

5. Who taught Bonhoeffer's nanny, Kathe van Horn, Christian concepts that challenged Lutheran orthodoxies of the day?

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