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

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) He was choosing to dedicate his life to being a double agent.
(b) He knew that the church would be marred by his sin.
(c) Because he knew that being willing to kill Hitler was leading him to renounce his Christianity.
(d) He did not want to implicate the church in a task that he was undertaking alone.

2. What does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer saw would destroy Germany after the defeat of France?
(a) He saw that now that Germans were turning back history, Germans would be taken by jealousy for each other.
(b) He saw that they had become mindlessly controlled by the Nazi view for Germany.
(c) He saw that Germany would be destroyed by success.
(d) He saw that Hitler would be able to lead them to their own destruction.

3. Where did Bonhoeffer first meet Eberhard Bethge, according to Metaxas?
(a) In Berlin upon his return from England.
(b) During one of the many social engagements at his parents home.
(c) During a conference with leaders of the Confessing Church.
(d) On the peninsula of Zingst.

4. What seeming contradiction of Bonhoeffer's was amplified by the war, according to Metaxas?
(a) Bonhoeffer would not be willing to kill as a soldier, but he was willing to conspire to kill Hitler.
(b) Bonhoeffer was not a pacifist, but he did not support wars.
(c) Bonhoeffer would not join the military, but he encouraged others to join.
(d) Bonhoeffer could not fight for Hitler's Germany, but he was extraordinarily supportive of those who did.

5. What speculation does Metaxas offer for the reason that the British government would not encourage German conspiracies to assassinate Hitler?
(a) Churchill wanted the credit of killing Hitler to go to a British scheme.
(b) Churchill did not believe that a German conspiracy could be successful.
(c) Churchill was preoccupied with capturing and trying Hitler.
(d) Churchill wanted to mollify Stalin.

6. Why was the plan to assassinate Hitler in Operation Flash not successful, according to Metaxas?
(a) The suicide bomber who was to execute the plan lost his nerve.
(b) The fuses did not detonate the bombs.
(c) Hitler was protected by an armor barrier that protected him from explosions.
(d) Hitler changed his plans and was not present when the conspirators thought he would be.

7. Why does Metaxas suggest that Bonhoeffer greeted the German victory over France with standing with the crowd and calling, "Heil, Hitler!"
(a) Because Bonhoeffer was finally wearing down to the pressure and confrontations.
(b) Because he had crossed a line to joining the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler and he wanted to blend in with crowds to avoid questions or scrutiny.
(c) Because Bonhoeffer was beginning to see that what Hitler was doing was overall beneficial to Germany.
(d) Bonhoeffer was tired of fighting everyone over the Nazis.

8. How did the Treaty of Versailles play a role in protecting Hitler from a coup, according to Metaxas?
(a) The treaty prohibited such treachery as they were planning in their coup.
(b) The German generals desired to overthrow the treaty so they accepted the victories to which Hitler led them.
(c) The treaty prohibited any action on their part unless it was taken under the advisement of the allied powers that wrote it.
(d) Hitler pointed out that the treaty prohibited their jobs from existing, so he showed that his violating it was in their benefit.

9. What did Bonhoeffer believe to be the future of theological education in Germany, according to a letter cited by Metaxas?
(a) "The only hope for teaching any biblical truth is to find areas of compromise with the current regime and willingly take those for the immediate future."
(b) "The entire education of the younger generation of theologians belongs today in church cloister-like schools, in which pure doctrine, the Sermon on the Mount and worship are taken seriously...."
(c) "Churches will have to become invisible and protective if they are to teach the Gospel in the future."
(d) "Christians will have to seek protection from international ecumenical movements to intercede between authoritarian governments and doctrinal freedom."

10. How does Metaxas report that Bonhoeffer was discovered to be involved in Operation 7?
(a) The Nazis were able to infiltrate the conspiracy that involved Bonhoeffer.
(b) A high-ranking Swiss official told the Nazis who was involved.
(c) His involvement was detailed in what had become known as the Zossen Papers.
(d) Bonhoeffer's Catholic friend, Joseph Muller, surrendered his involvement with several others while being held in a Gestapo prison.

11. How does Metaxas explain Bonhoeffer's view of the relationship of the church to the world?
(a) The church had to be as wise as serpents but as gentle as doves.
(b) The church was to speak into the world and to be a voice in the world, so it had an obligation to speak out against things that did not affect it directly.
(c) The church was called to obedient even unto death.
(d) The church was to activate itself to fight against what was evil in the eyes of God.

12. How did the commissar order revitalize the conspiracy to overthrow Hitler?
(a) Many generals considered the order to be an unreasonable violation of the rules of warfare.
(b) The generals felt that adding an SS commissar to their entourage would slow down their progress.
(c) The generals felt that prisoners of war were their responsibility and could be used in productive supporting roles for their soldiers.
(d) Many generals felt Soviet commissars could be used to find more important tactical information.

13. How had the relationship come to be known to Maria's mother, according to Metaxas?
(a) Maria confessed her love for Bonhoeffer directly to her mother.
(b) Through Maria's brother, Max von Wedemeyer.
(c) Bonhoeffer told her through correspondence.
(d) Through Maria's grandmother, Ruth von Kleist-Retzow.

14. According to Metaxas, why did the Gestapo take Bonhoeffer for execution?
(a) Hitler wanted to take one last action against Christianity.
(b) He was taken by mistake.
(c) The Gestapo had found a record of Nazi atrocities that was being kept by Hans von Dohnanyi that had identified Bonhoeffer as a co-conspirator against Hitler.
(d) No strong reason exists in the historical record.

15. What was the last thing Bonhoeffer did with the prisoners with whom he was in transit before he was taken by the Gestapo to be executed?
(a) He went to bed for the first time in three months.
(b) He shared some potato salad and coffee with his fellow inmates.
(c) He performed a worship service on Quasimodo Sunday (the first Sunday after Easter).
(d) He had gone into his daily Bible verse meditation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Metaxas detail to have prevented the bomb that Stauffenberg detonated from killing Hitler?

2. Who does Metaxas identify as the individual who was largely responsible for helping Bonhoeffer have a purpose for going to America before Germany started a war?

3. To what Biblical prophets did Metaxas compare Bonhoeffer based upon the speech he gave at Fano?

4. How does Metaxas explain the Nuremberg laws affected the Jews?

5. What does Metaxas cite as the main reason that Bonhoeffer's treatment at Tegel was not as severe as it could have been?

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