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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. Which quote does Metaxas use to reflect Hitler's attitude toward Protestant pastors?
(a) "It's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland ans the highest good?"
(b) "A church that does not keep step with modern scientific knowledge is doomed. It may take quite a while, but it is bound finally to happen."
(c) "You can do anything you want with them,...They are insignificant little people, submissive as dogs,...."
(d) "If this doesn't come from the other side...then it must come from us;...."

2. To what did Bonhoeffer compare a crowd at a bullfight, according to Metaxas?
(a) The anger that his father would display when he was displeased with his actions.
(b) A type of bloodthirsty disregard for the dignity of life that he saw in Nazi brownshirts.
(c) A vicious animal closing in for a kill.
(d) The crowd from the bible yelling "crucify" at Christ.

3. How did Bonhoeffer finally propose to Maria, according to Metaxas?
(a) Through a letter.
(b) Through her grandmother.
(c) With her brother.
(d) To her mother with Maria present.

4. What does Metaxas suggest gave Bonhoeffer hope on Easter Sunday, 1945?
(a) The sound of allied weaponry and bombs approaching Buchenwald.
(b) His renewed faith that the Resurrection symbolized he would come through his imprisonment.
(c) Many of the prison guards were not showing up at their stations so they could escape capture by American soldiers.
(d) News from General von Falkenhausen, one of the inmates with Bonhoeffer, that the German defeat was at hand.

5. What quote does Metaxas pull from a sermon that Bonhoeffer gave in Barcelona while his parents were visiting?
(a) "The essence of Christianity is not about religion at all, but about the person of Christ."
(b) " I fear that Christians who venture to stand on earth on only one leg will stand in heaven on only one leg too."
(c) "Christ has given scarcely any ethical prescriptions that wer not to be found already with the contemporary Jewish rabbis or in pagan literature."
(d) "[I]f you want to find eternity, you must serve the times."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Metaxas report to be an inmate of Bonhoeffer who once performed brutal medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners?

2. What does Metaxas report to be the conditions in Germany that inspired Adolph Hitler to lead the Bierhall Putch?

3. What does Metaxas report to be Bonhoeffer's first ministry?

4. How does Metaxas describe the "Thursday Circle"?

5. For what reason does Metaxas report that Bonhoeffer and Hermann Sasse wrote the Bethel Confession?

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