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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 claim that Operation Flash got it's name?
(a) It was a plan to put a suicide bomber in a meeting with Hitler.
(b) It got it's name because they had planned to have a sniper shoot Hitler when a spotlight came on him during a Nazi rally.
(c) Because it was a plan to blow up Hitler's plane while he was being flown over Minsk.
(d) It was a plan to set fire to Hitler's home.

2. What does Metaxas report to be the meaning of the officials at Flossenburg telling the prisoners being transferred from Buchenwald that the camp was "too full" to receive them?
(a) That they were backlogged on executions and they would have to wait in another location until they could be "processed".
(b) The camp had been converted to a receiving center for refugees fleeing allied bombing.
(c) That those prisoners were not marked for death as the only purpose for Flossenburg was to execute prisoners.
(d) The winding down of the war meant the Germans were not wasting resources and time on political executions.

3. What does Metaxas identify as the difference between the theological debate in the U.S. in the 1930's and those in which Bonhoeffer participated as he was earning his doctorate degrees?
(a) Those who participated in the American debate accepted conclusions to various arguments but showed no interest in finding how those conclusions were developed.
(b) Bonhoeffer was eager to use the Bible and church history to support his positions, but none of the contestants in the American debate sought such support.
(c) Bonhoeffer's European debates were founded on centuries of church heritage which the American debates neglected.
(d) Bonhoeffer respected those with whom he disagreed, but sides in the American debate would tolerate no contributions from their detractors.

4. What reason did Metaxas give for the Bonhoeffer family's ability to escape scrutiny even though it was deeply involved in seditious activities?
(a) The Bonhoeffer's had connections throughout government that would overlook what they were doing.
(b) They were wealthy enough to bribe officials that were investigating them.
(c) Their intelligence allowed them to communicate on several levels and get a precise message to an intended target.
(d) All of them were very skilled at "playing dumb".

5. What does Metaxas claim to have inspired Bonhoeffer and his fellow prisoners to hang on through their imprisonment in Buchenwald?
(a) The hymns that Bonhoeffer gently sang.
(b) The knowledge that any moment might bring their liberation or their deaths.
(c) The willingness of all the prisoners to cooperate to try to find their way of escape.
(d) The presence of Bonhoeffer's quiet courage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Metaxas claim to be Bonhoeffer's view of death?

2. Who was the theologian that Metaxas reports Bonhoeffer lobbied to have placed in the University of Berlin that the Nazis rejected?

3. How does Metaxas explain the affect of the Aryan Paragraph on the German Church?

4. How does Metaxas claim the Reigchstag Fire Edict empowered the Nazis over Germany?

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

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