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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Metaxas report to be Bonhoeffer's negotiating advantage during his time leading two congregations in London?
(a) He could have free communications with the ecumenical movement around the world and bring them to pressure Nazi intrusions in church affairs.
(b) He could communicate Nazi demands around the world and expose their true intentions.
(c) He could train young Germans in the biblical heritage of the church and send them to Germany to challenge the German Christians.
(d) He could separate the German churches in England from the official German church and harm Germany's international reputation.

2. Why does Metaxas claim Reformation Sunday is a patriotic holiday in Germany?
(a) It was the day the Nazis took control of the Reichstag.
(b) It celebrates Martin Luther and the cultural heritage of the Reformation.
(c) It is the day that the Reformation was recognized by the Catholic Church.
(d) It is the day that the Germanic tribes agreed to come together as a single nation.

3. Why does Metaxas claim that the Nazis used Martin Luther's late writings regarding Jews to promote their agenda against the Jews.
(a) Because Hitler adulated Luther.
(b) Because Luther's defined what it was to be a German Christian.
(c) Because the Nazis respected Luther's theological perspective.
(d) Because Luther's views met with the scientific foundation of the Nazis' racial policies.

4. Why does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer, "...struggled with the 'problem' of being charming."
(a) Because he wanted the words and logic of what he said to be the only things to which others responded.
(b) Because it caused social problems for him.
(c) Because he was, by nature, a recluse.
(d) Because it was frowned upon by his father.

5. What does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer found when he visited Friedrich von Bodelschwing's Bethel community in Bielefeld?
(a) Von Bodelschwing preparing to leave the settlement so he could fulfill his duties as Reichsbischof.
(b) A whole town with schools, churches, farms, factories, shops, and housing for nurses.
(c) A modest hospital where epileptic care was given.
(d) A town that had been taken over by the German Christians and had begun marking many of the residents for elimination.

6. What quote of Bonhoeffer's friend, Franz Hildebrandt, does Metaxas use to show the intellectual demands Bonhoeffer placed on those who were close to him.
(a) "You could not be a friend of Dietrich's if you did not argue with him."
(b) "He would know the answer to every question he asked you and put you under a constant test of your understanding of the Bible and the world."
(c) "Dietrich would ask for explanations and proofs of everything that came out of your mouth."
(d) "Dietrich would expect you to go to plays, operas, and museums with him and engage in lengthy conversations as to the significance of whatever was put before us."

7. What momentous historic event does Metaxas note took place two days after Bonhoeffer arrived in Germany, and of which he was ignorant?
(a) His brother got married.
(b) The Japanese left the League of nations.
(c) The Nazi Party was elected to the second largest political party in Germany.
(d) His first love got married.

8. According to Metaxas, upon what basis were Jews persecuted in Nazi Germany?
(a) Jews were persecuted on racial grounds.
(b) Jews were persecuted on political grounds.
(c) Jews were persecuted on economic grounds.
(d) Jews were persecuted on religious grounds.

9. What does Metaxas report to be Bonhoeffer's first ministry?
(a) The Thursday Circle.
(b) The associate pastorship in Barcelona.
(c) Teaching and preaching to a youth Sunday school class in the Grunewald parish.
(d) 14 Wangenheimstrasse.

10. At what age does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer completed his second postdoctoral thesis?
(a) 33
(b) 27
(c) 23
(d) 31

11. How many children does Metaxas claim came to Bonhoeffer's first Sunday school class in Barcelona?
(a) One.
(b) 15.
(c) 7.
(d) 12.

12. What does Metaxas claim annoyed Hitler regarding Christian teaching?
(a) That Christianity had a long tradition that could not be dismantled.
(b) That Christianity taught that Jesus was the only begotten son of God.
(c) That Christianity preached meekness.
(d) That Jesus was Jewish.

13. What was the question that Metaxas claims Jean Lassere put to Bonhoeffer that led him to become involved in the ecumenical movement?
(a) "Do we believe in the Holy Catholic Church, the Communion of the Saints, or do we believe in the eternal mission of France?"
(b) "Are you willing to forgo all you have been taught about your people and take part in something much greater?"
(c) "Do you really believe that Christ would call us to kill each other to determine if French Christians were better than German Christians?"
(d) "Is our war between flesh and blood or between the spirits of God and the spirits of the devil?"

14. Who was accused of burning down the Reichstag, according to Metaxas?
(a) Marinus van der Lubbe.
(b) Herman Goring.
(c) Georgi Dimitroff.
(d) Ernst Hanfstaengl.

15. What question regarding the reformation became increasingly important to Bonhoeffer as the Nazis became increasingly demanding of the Lutheran church?
(a) Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people?
(b) Can there really be a separation of church and state?
(c) Did the reformation go wrong by moving from a sect to a church.
(d) Did Christianity have too close of a relationship with pagan culture when the catholic church became officially recognized.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Germans consider the Weimar Republic, according to Metaxas?

2. Who does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer's first love to be?

3. How does Metaxas report that Bonhoeffer's parents learned of his death?

4. Which quote does Metaxas use to reflect Hitler's attitude toward Protestant pastors?

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

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