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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Metaxas, why did the Gestapo take Bonhoeffer for execution?
(a) No strong reason exists in the historical record.
(b) Hitler wanted to take one last action against Christianity.
(c) He was taken by mistake.
(d) 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.

2. How does Metaxas claim that Operation Flash got it's name?
(a) It got it's name because they had planned to have a sniper shoot Hitler when a spotlight came on him during a Nazi rally.
(b) It was a plan to set fire to Hitler's home.
(c) Because it was a plan to blow up Hitler's plane while he was being flown over Minsk.
(d) It was a plan to put a suicide bomber in a meeting with Hitler.

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

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

5. How does Metaxas explain Bonhoeffer's view of the relationship of the church to the world?
(a) 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.
(b) The church was to activate itself to fight against what was evil in the eyes of God.
(c) The church was called to obedient even unto death.
(d) The church had to be as wise as serpents but as gentle as doves.

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

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

8. What question does Metaxas raise with regard to Bonhoeffer's interest in taking a trip to India to visit Ghandi?
(a) "What was the significance that nations with no Christian heritage were more able to stand on Christian principles of peace and love than were those nations who had been trained in them for centuries?"
(b) "Was it possible that...Christ was operating among non-Christians in a way that could force the church to action?"
(c) "Why was it that a pagan could find the courage to stand on the Sermon on the Mount, but those trained in it did not know how to apply it?"
(d) "Was God bringing judgment on Christian nations by leaving them to evil and preparing to move on pagan nations that freely practiced His principles?"

9. What does Metaxas identify as the major difference between the ecumenical movement and Bonhoeffer with regard to WWII?
(a) The ecumenical movement sought to end the war, but Bonhoeffer decided that Hitler had to be assassinated.
(b) The ecumenical movement discouraged people from joining the military, but Bonhoeffer did not feel so empowered.
(c) The ecumenical movement was pacifist, but Bonhoeffer was not.
(d) The ecumenical movement believed Hitler could be negotiated with, but Bonhoeffer did not.

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) The Bonhoeffer's had connections throughout government that would overlook what they were doing.
(c) They were wealthy enough to bribe officials that were investigating them.
(d) All of them were very skilled at "playing dumb".

11. What does Metaxas report to be the commissar order?
(a) A direct order that all prisoners taken by the German military were to be placed under the direct command of an SS commissar.
(b) A direct order that all German military officers would be assigned a Nazi commissar to direct them in the proper German method of conducting combat.
(c) A military order that ordered that all Soviet commissars be captured and grilled for torture techniques.
(d) A military order that all captured Soviet military leaders were to be shot and killed.

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

13. 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 Bonhoeffer wanted to feel the sense of connection with Bethge, even though he was in prison.
(c) Because Bonhoeffer didn't want prison to be a limit on his pastoral advise.
(d) Because doing so gives one a sense of grounding, continuity, and clarity.

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

15. When does Metaxas record Maria learned of Bonhoeffer's arrest?
(a) April 20.
(b) April 5.
(c) Two days later when the Gestapo showed up at her house to question her about her relationship with Bonhoeffer.
(d) 13 days after it had happened.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Metaxas report to be the one thing that Bonhoeffer did every day of his captivity?

2. Which of the following does Metaxas not report to have been arrested on the same day as Bonhoeffer?

3. What statement did Bonhoeffer make in a lecture titled, "The Question of the Boundaries of the Church and Church Union", was criticized by his supporters as being a piece of false doctrine?

4. What does Metaxas claim to be the major obstacle that inhibited the relationship between Bonhoeffer and Maria von Wedemeyer from developing, according to Metaxas?

5. What does Metaxas report to be the meaning of the officials at Flossenburg telling the prisoners being transferred from Buchenwald that the camp was "too full" to receive them?

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