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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Metaxas report that Hitler avoided political confrontations from his generals as he was making plans for war?
(a) He met with Neville Chamberlain to negotiate the peaceful acquisition of Czechoslovakia.
(b) He put out false stories that his major opponents in the military were homosexuals.
(c) He took command of the military by establishing the OKW and surrounding himself with supporters.
(d) He conducted the peaceful anchluss of Austria.

4. 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) Bonhoeffer's Catholic friend, Joseph Muller, surrendered his involvement with several others while being held in a Gestapo prison.
(d) His involvement was detailed in what had become known as the Zossen Papers.

5. 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 that what they were planning was a grievous sin and that God would show His judgment by keeping them from their goal.
(b) 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
(c) Because he knew the Nazis were watching their every move and one of them was bound to slip up at some point.
(d) Because Hitler had a legion of demons around him that drove his evil in the spiritual realm.

6. What does Metaxas suggest that Bonhoeffer meant by "religionless Christianity"?
(a) Bonhoeffer felt that his turmoil in prison was proving all his devotion to God to be a sham and he came to the point of renouncing his religion.
(b) Bonhoeffer began to believe that the evils of the Nazis indicated that God was dead.
(c) Bonhoeffer did not believe that the Nazis were going to be removed from Germany, so Christian churches would cease to exist and Christians were going to have to live out their faith.
(d) Bonhoeffer was seeing that it was time to recognize God's authority over the whole world and stop keeping Him in religious corners that we reserve for Him.

7. 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?
(a) Because Hitler cut his visit short before the bombs could detonate.
(b) Because Gersdorff lost his nerve.
(c) Because the fuses to the bombs did not work.
(d) Because the Gestapo had discovered the plot and had Gersdorff arrested.

8. What does Metaxas report to be the one thing that Bonhoeffer did every day of his captivity?
(a) He had coffee that was one quarter grounds.
(b) He maintained the daily discipline of scriptural meditation and prayer he had been practicing for more than a decade.
(c) He had to leave his bucket outside the door every morning.
(d) He wrote in his diary.

9. What former theological nemesis of Bonhoeffer's does Metaxas report to have joined a conspiracy against Hitler?
(a) Ludwig von Muller
(b) George Bell.
(c) Theodor Heckel.
(d) Hans Schonfeld.

10. What international event prevented a conspiracy from declaring Hitler insane and removing him from office, according to Metaxas?
(a) The Krystallnacht.
(b) The resignation of General Ludwig von Beck.
(c) Neville Chamberlain appearing in Munich to negotiate the peaceful German occupation of Czechoslovakia?
(d) The Anschluss of Austria.

11. What happened to Gersdorff after his failed attempt?
(a) He fled to Switzerland.
(b) He was executed with Bonhoeffer and his other co-conspirators.
(c) He lived until 1980.
(d) He was blown up and the incident exposed the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler.

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

13. According to Metaxas, why didn't Hitler have everyone involved in the conspiracy against him immediately executed?
(a) He wanted to enjoy torturing the co-conspirators to their death.
(b) He was planning massive, televised show trials after his success in the war.
(c) Hitler wanted to get as much information as possible regarding the conspiracy.
(d) The war was winding down and the resources were not available to retrieve all of them.

14. What does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer's struggle with avoiding military service as Germany prepared for war proves regarding his thinking?
(a) That Christians must first be motivated by the affects of their decisions on others.
(b) 4. That Christians must be submissive to government, but they must not be a party to immorality.
(c) That Christians reach points that they have no good choices.
(d) That Christians cannot be governed by mere principles, but must hear from God.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Metaxas claim to be a motivation for Bonhoeffer's letter writing style while he was in prison?

2. What was Bonhoeffer's next destination after he traveled to Sweden to share information regarding the conspiracy against Hitler with Bishop George Bell, according to Metaxas.

3. After Bonhoeffer announced he would be willing to personally kill Hitler, why does Metaxas claim he would have to resign from the Confessing Church?

4. What question does Metaxas raise with regard to Bonhoeffer's interest in taking a trip to India to visit Ghandi?

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

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