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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. After Bonhoeffer announced he would be willing to personally kill Hitler, why does Metaxas claim he would have to resign from the Confessing Church?
(a) Because he knew that being willing to kill Hitler was leading him to renounce his Christianity.
(b) He did not want to implicate the church in a task that he was undertaking alone.
(c) He knew that the church would be marred by his sin.
(d) He was choosing to dedicate his life to being a double agent.

2. What was the biblical text that Luther used for his sermon at Kaiser Wilhelm memorial Church, according to Metaxas?
(a) Revelation 2:4-5: "Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou has left thy first love...."
(b) 1 Peter 2:20, "For what credit is it if, when you are beaten for your faults you take it patiently? But when you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently this is commendable before God."
(c) Psalm 42, "My Soul is cast down within me."
(d) Psalm 19, "Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations."

3. What does Metaxas report to be the conditions in Germany that inspired Adolph Hitler to lead the Bierhall Putch?
(a) Hyperinflation of the German Mark due to attempts to meet the harsh economic terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
(b) A desire to establish a constitutional republic.
(c) A wave of nationalistic sentiment.
(d) A populist disdain for Otto von Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor.

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) He returned to Berlin to get an update on the Kreisau Circle.
(b) Norway to lend support to actions taken by Norwegian bishops.
(c) He was ordered to Berlin for a meeting with Theodor Heckel.
(d) To visit his friend Ruth von Kleist-Retzow.

5. What choice did Bonhoeffer explain that the German church faced in a letter to Bishop Ammundsen, cited by Metaxas, regarding the ecumenical conference in Fano?
(a) The German church faced the choice of being at peace or at war.
(b) The German church faced the choice of being free or slave.
(c) The German church faced the choice of either being Christian or National Socialist.
(d) The German church faced the choice of defending their faith or compromising it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How had the relationship come to be known to Maria's mother, according to Metaxas?

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

3. What does Metaxas claim to have given Bonhoeffer any value during his trip to New York?

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

5. What was the date of Bonhoeffer's death, according to Metaxas?

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