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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Metaxas identify Bethge as an important figure for Bonhoeffer's legacy?
(a) Bethge would pick up Bonhoeffer's ministry after he was sent to prison.
(b) Bonhoeffer would confide in Bethge about some of his bouts with depression.
(c) Bethge would preserve many of Bonhoeffer's writings and distribute them through the world.
(d) Bethge would keep very close contact with Bonhoeffer during his time in prison.

2. For what reason does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer left London for Berlin?
(a) Because the Foreign Ministry of the Government had ordered him home.
(b) To report for duty as the imminent head of the first seminary in the Confessing Church.
(c) To organize his associated in the Confessing Church for a more effective stand against the Nazis.
(d) Because he felt the need to pick up his opposition to Hitler in his homeland.

3. Why was the German Government opposed to Bonhoeffer and is ordinands traveling to visit the Swiss church, according to a quote found by Metaxas?
(a) "...because his influence is not conducive to German interests."
(b) "...because it is important that we protect the Christian solidarity of our citizens."
(c) "...because Bonhoeffer's presentation to the international press will bring disfavor to our leaders."
(d) "...because Bonhoeffer has caused no small amount of embarrassment when he has gone to other countries."

4. Why did Bonhoeffer communicate, in his essay "After Ten Years", that the conspiracy with which he was involved with Bethge, Dohnanyi and Oster, would fail, according to quotes used by Metaxas?
(a) Because he knew the Nazis were watching their every move and one of them was bound to slip up at some point.
(b) Because Hitler had a legion of demons around him that drove his evil in the spiritual realm.
(c) Because he knew that he and his friends would be willing to sacrifice all when they were called to obedient, responsible action in faith to God
(d) Because he knew that what they were planning was a grievous sin and that God would show His judgment by keeping them from their goal.

5. What does Metaxas claim to be Bonhoeffer's view of death?
(a) It was his opportunity to enter into the glory of the Lord.
(b) It was the "last station on the road to freedom".
(c) It was the only way to see if Christian faith was true.
(d) It was a separation that was not requested or welcomed.

6. Why did Colonel Claus von Sauffenberg join the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler, according to Metaxas?
(a) A devout Catholic, Sauffenberg agreed with Bonhoeffer that the Nazis were attempting to eliminate the Christian religion.
(b) He could not face his conscience if he did not act.
(c) Stauffenberg could rise in political rank and someday be the Chancellor of Germany if he successfully killed Hitler.
(d) He was disgusted with Hitler when he witnessed the treatment of Polish prisoners of war in 1939 and for the murder of the Jews.

7. 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 Hitler would be able to lead them to their own destruction.
(c) He saw that Germany would be destroyed by success.
(d) He saw that they had become mindlessly controlled by the Nazi view for Germany.

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

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

10. What reason did Metaxas give for the Bonhoeffer family's ability to escape scrutiny even though it was deeply involved in seditious activities?
(a) Their intelligence allowed them to communicate on several levels and get a precise message to an intended target.
(b) They were wealthy enough to bribe officials that were investigating them.
(c) All of them were very skilled at "playing dumb".
(d) The Bonhoeffer's had connections throughout government that would overlook what they were doing.

11. How does Metaxas explain that Bonhoeffer planned to escape from Tegel?
(a) By hiding in a bag of dirty laundry to be delivered to a uniform service.
(b) His uncle, Paul von Hase, military commandant over Tegel, would have him released.
(c) By tunneling out from his cell.
(d) By walking out with Corporal Knobloch in a mechanics uniform.

12. How does Metaxas indicate that Churchill harmed the conspiracy against Hitler?
(a) By refusing to negotiate with it until it had killed Hitler.
(b) By accusing every German of being a Nazi.
(c) By announcing that he would only accept an unconditional surrender from Germany.
(d) By refusing to hear any information of its progress.

13. 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) "Christians will have to seek protection from international ecumenical movements to intercede between authoritarian governments and doctrinal freedom."
(c) "Churches will have to become invisible and protective if they are to teach the Gospel in the future."
(d) "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...."

14. Which of the following does Metaxas not report to have been arrested on the same day as Bonhoeffer?
(a) General Ludwig Beck
(b) Joseph Muller.
(c) Christine Bonhoeffer.
(d) Hans Dohnanyi.

15. 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?
(a) Henry Leiper.
(b) Henry Sloan Coffin.
(c) Reinhold Niebuhr.
(d) Paul Lehmann.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer saw Psalms 74 as being a direct communication from God regarding the situation in Germany?

2. What does Metaxas suggest gave Bonhoeffer hope on Easter Sunday, 1945?

3. What does Metaxas suggest to be the internal struggle regarding military service that troubled Bonhoeffer?

4. What seeming contradiction of Bonhoeffer's was amplified by the war, according to Metaxas?

5. What does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer recognized while he planned to carry out his engagement with Maria and proceed with plans to assassinate Hitler?

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