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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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) The Krystallnacht.
(c) Neville Chamberlain appearing in Munich to negotiate the peaceful German occupation of Czechoslovakia?
(d) The Anschluss of Austria.

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

6. 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 he and his friends would be willing to sacrifice all when they were called to obedient, responsible action in faith to God
(b) Because he knew the Nazis were watching their every move and one of them was bound to slip up at some point.
(c) 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.
(d) Because Hitler had a legion of demons around him that drove his evil in the spiritual realm.

7. What question does Metaxas raise with regard to Bonhoeffer's interest in taking a trip to India to visit Ghandi?
(a) "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?"
(b) "Was God bringing judgment on Christian nations by leaving them to evil and preparing to move on pagan nations that freely practiced His principles?"
(c) "Was it possible that...Christ was operating among non-Christians in a way that could force the church to action?"
(d) "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?"

8. 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) 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) Bonhoeffer would confide in Bethge about some of his bouts with depression.

9. What dramatic event greeted Bonhoeffer as 1938 was beginning, according to Metaxas?
(a) He helped his sister and her husband leave Germany for Switzerland.
(b) He heard about Kristallnacht.
(c) Gestapo officers arrested him and 30 others during a meeting of the Confessing Church.
(d) He became part of the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler.

10. How was Bonhoeffer defined by an ordainant from Finkewalde Seminary quoted by Metaxas?
(a) Bonhoeffer was, "...a lightning rod for controversy and his persistent defiance of the government had him and his friends in constant turmoil."
(b) Bonhoeffer was either fool-hardy or the bravest man I ever knew."
(c) Bonhoeffer was, "...a man who believes in what he thinks and does what he believes in."
(d) "For Bonhoeffer there was no compromise when it came to living out biblical truth."

11. How does Metaxas claim that Operation Flash got it's name?
(a) It was a plan to set fire to Hitler's home.
(b) 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.
(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.

12. According to a letter cited by Metaxas, what aspect of prison life was an enrichment of his life's experience?
(a) A thrush would sing outside his window daily.
(b) The hardships of prison hardly bothered him.
(c) The lack of physical things made them lose their importance.
(d) He was able to quit smoking.

13. 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) How do I learn to pray? How do I learn to read the Bible?
(b) 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?
(c) What should be our view toward the Jews? Aren't we to honor the government since it was ordained by God?
(d) How do I minister the Gospel under the opposition of the government? How do I protect my flock from the government?

14. 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 military order that ordered that all Soviet commissars be captured and grilled for torture techniques.
(c) 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.
(d) A military order that all captured Soviet military leaders were to be shot and killed.

15. 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 was looking for a way to obey his conscience, but would not force others to face consequences for his decisions.
(c) He did not want to join the military, but he did not want to leave Germany.
(d) 4. He did not want to join the military but did not want to be considered a coward.

Short Answer Questions

1. What action by Norwegian bishops in response to Vidkun Quisling's removal of Provost Fjellbu from a church leadership position does Metaxis report encouraged Bonhoeffer?

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

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?

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

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

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