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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 would not join the military, but he encouraged others to join.
(c) Bonhoeffer could not fight for Hitler's Germany, but he was extraordinarily supportive of those who did.
(d) Bonhoeffer was not a pacifist, but he did not support wars.

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.
(a) He returned to Berlin to get an update on the Kreisau Circle.
(b) Norway to lend support to actions taken by Norwegian bishops.
(c) He was ordered to Berlin for a meeting with Theodor Heckel.
(d) To visit his friend Ruth von Kleist-Retzow.

3. What did Bonhoeffer claim to be the two main questions that young theologians brought to him in a letter to Karl Barth that was cited by Metaxas?
(a) Should we strive to work within the government to change those practices that are immoral? Aren't we as Christians to humbly submit to the governing authority?
(b) How do I learn to pray? How do I learn to read the Bible?
(c) How do I minister the Gospel under the opposition of the government? How do I protect my flock from the government?
(d) What should be our view toward the Jews? Aren't we to honor the government since it was ordained by God?

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

5. How does Metaxas show how Eberhard Bethge explained how Bonhoeffer could accept the paradox of being a Christian involved in an assassination plot against a head of state?
(a) 3. Bethge said that Bonhoeffer knew that his role in the assassination attempt was a sin that fell outside of his Christian faith.
(b) 4. Bethge said that Bonhoeffer told him that God and instructed him how to kill Hitler.
(c) Bethge explained that as the Hitler regime became more murderous, mere confession of beliefs with out action essentially became complicity with the murders.
(d) Metaxas showed that Bonhoeffer's fate was to eliminate Hitler, the cause of war, or accept a position in the military in which he would be involved in eliminate people with whom he had no disagreement.

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

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

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

9. 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?"

10. What does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer's struggle with avoiding military service as Germany prepared for war proves regarding his thinking?
(a) 4. That Christians must be submissive to government, but they must not be a party to immorality.
(b) That Christians must first be motivated by the affects of their decisions on others.
(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.

11. 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) Life is not as easy as applying principles that define sin and righteousness.
(b) He felt that he had cut his ties with the church and started making decisions that were self serving.
(c) 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.
(d) He knew that he was facing by the SS and decided to finish some things that he had always wanted to do.

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

13. Why does Metaxas suggest that Bonhoeffer greeted the German victory over France with standing with the crowd and calling, "Heil, Hitler!"
(a) Bonhoeffer was tired of fighting everyone over the Nazis.
(b) Because Bonhoeffer was beginning to see that what Hitler was doing was overall beneficial to Germany.
(c) Because Bonhoeffer was finally wearing down to the pressure and confrontations.
(d) 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.

14. What does Metaxas detail to have prevented the bomb that Stauffenberg detonated from killing Hitler?
(a) A socle.
(b) The fuses did not detonate.
(c) The Gestapo had Stauffenberg arrested before he could carry out his plot.
(d) Hitler chose to leave the room.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Metaxas claim to have inspired Bonhoeffer and his fellow prisoners to hang on through their imprisonment in Buchenwald?

2. What reservations does Metaxas claim Maria's sister and her husband had regarding Bonhoeffer?

3. What international event prevented a conspiracy from declaring Hitler insane and removing him from office, according to Metaxas?

4. Who gave Hitler early congratulations for his successful annexation of Austria, according to Metaxas?

5. What speculation does Metaxas make as to why the former Nazi official who performed medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners was placed in confinement?

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