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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 report that Bonhoeffer's parents learned of his death?
(a) By receiving a phone call from one of Bonhoeffers survivors after his release from Flossenburg concentration camp.
(b) By listening to the broadcast of his memorial service on the Radio.
(c) By receiving a letter from the commandant of Flossenburg concentration camp.
(d) From watching the video of his execution on a movie theater news reel.

2. What does Metaxas suggest to be the internal struggle regarding military service that troubled Bonhoeffer?
(a) 4. He did not want to join the military but did not want to be considered a coward.
(b) He was looking for a way to obey his conscience, but would not force others to face consequences for his decisions.
(c) He did not want to join the military, but he did not want to leave Germany.
(d) He was looking for a way to avoid military service without being imprisoned.

3. Why did Bonhoeffer recommend that Bethge keep up daily meditations on scripture even while he traveled according to Metaxas?
(a) Because doing so gives one a sense of grounding, continuity, and clarity.
(b) Because Bonhoeffer wanted to feel the sense of connection with Bethge, even though he was in prison.
(c) Because Bonhoeffer believed that self-discipline was the most important part of being a pastor.
(d) Because Bonhoeffer didn't want prison to be a limit on his pastoral advise.

4. What does Metaxas claim to have given Bonhoeffer any value during his trip to New York?
(a) The socially focused church activities.
(b) Negro Churches.
(c) The casual attitudes of seminary students.
(d) The open debate regarding social issues.

5. 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?
(a) What should be our view toward the Jews? Aren't we to honor the government since it was ordained by God?
(b) How do I learn to pray? How do I learn to read the Bible?
(c) Should we strive to work within the government to change those practices that are immoral? Aren't we as Christians to humbly submit to the governing authority?
(d) How do I minister the Gospel under the opposition of the government? How do I protect my flock from the government?

Short Answer 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?

2. Why didn't the suicide plan involving Major Rudolf-Christoph von Gersdorff to kill Hitler with bombs hiding in Gersdorff's overcoat while Hitler attended a Hero's Memorial Day, according to Metaxas?

3. How does Metaxas suggest Karl Bonhoeffer met living expenses during the period of hyperinflation caused by the Treaty of Versailles?

4. What former theological nemesis of Bonhoeffer's does Metaxas report to have joined a conspiracy against Hitler?

5. What relationship did Bonhoeffer have with Maria von Wedemeyer before he had seen her while visiting her grandmother?

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