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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Metaxas claim that Operation Flash got it's name?
(a) Because it was a plan to blow up Hitler's plane while he was being flown over Minsk.
(b) It was a plan to put a suicide bomber in a meeting with Hitler.
(c) It was a plan to set fire to Hitler's home.
(d) 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.

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

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

4. What does Metaxas suggest to be the internal struggle regarding military service that troubled Bonhoeffer?
(a) He was looking for a way to avoid military service without being imprisoned.
(b) He did not want to join the military, but he did not want to leave Germany.
(c) He was looking for a way to obey his conscience, but would not force others to face consequences for his decisions.
(d) 4. He did not want to join the military but did not want to be considered a coward.

5. Who does Metaxas report to be an inmate of Bonhoeffer who once performed brutal medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners?
(a) Dr. Waldemar Hoven.
(b) Dr. Sigmund Rascher.
(c) General von Falkenhausen.
(d) "Heidl".

6. Who gave Hitler early congratulations for his successful annexation of Austria, according to Metaxas?
(a) Herman Goring.
(b) Bishop Martin Sasse the Protestant Bishop of Thuringia, Austria.
(c) General Ludwig von Beck.
(d) General Wilhelm von Fritsch.

7. How did the commissar order revitalize the conspiracy to overthrow Hitler?
(a) The generals felt that adding an SS commissar to their entourage would slow down their progress.
(b) Many generals considered the order to be an unreasonable violation of the rules of warfare.
(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.

8. What does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer recognized while he planned to carry out his engagement with Maria and proceed with plans to assassinate Hitler?
(a) He felt that he had cut his ties with the church and started making decisions that were self serving.
(b) He knew that he was facing by the SS and decided to finish some things that he had always wanted to do.
(c) Life is not as easy as applying principles that define sin and righteousness.
(d) God wants his children to operate out of freedom and joy to do what was right and good, not out of fear of making mistakes.

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

10. What event does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer saw Psalms 74 as being a direct communication from God regarding the situation in Germany?
(a) The Enabling Acts.
(b) The 1936 Olympics.
(c) The Night of the Long Knives.
(d) The Kristallnacht.

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

12. Who in the conspiracy against Hitler does Metaxas suggest was arrested before Bonhoeffer?
(a) Joseph Muller.
(b) Hans Oster.
(c) Hans Dohnanyi.
(d) Wilhelm Schmidhuber.

13. What relationship did Bonhoeffer have with Maria von Wedemeyer before he had seen her while visiting her grandmother?
(a) He had refused to take the task of training her for her confirmation when she was 12 because she did not seem mature enough.
(b) He was a close friend of her brother's in the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler.
(c) He had acted as an uncle to her in the absence of her father who was sent to the Russian front.
(d) He trained her as a Bible student as part of the Confessing Church.

14. What speculation does Metaxas make as to why the former Nazi official who performed medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners was placed in confinement?
(a) Because he had come to his conscience and refused to conduct any more experiments.
(b) He had become disgusted with his work and joined the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler.
(c) Because he attempted to publish his findings in a Swiss medical journal so they could be more widely used.
(d) He was found to be keeping records of what he was doing for the Nazis so he could share them with allied officials to incriminate his superiors.

15. What event began WWII according to Metaxas?
(a) The invasion of Poland.
(b) The Non-aggression Pact between Hitler and Stalin.
(c) Nazi occupation of Prague.
(d) The Anschluss of Austria.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Metaxas, why did the Gestapo take Bonhoeffer for execution?

2. What does Metaxas identify as the major difference between the ecumenical movement and Bonhoeffer with regard to WWII?

3. How does Metaxas report that Hitler avoided political confrontations from his generals as he was making plans for war?

4. What did Bonhoeffer believe to be the future of theological education in Germany, according to a letter cited by Metaxas?

5. What does Metaxas cite as the first reason that Bonhoeffer joined the Abwehr?

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