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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Metaxas cite as the first reason that Bonhoeffer joined the Abwehr?
(a) Joining the Abwehr put him in touch with the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler.
(b) By joining the Abwehr, Bonhoeffer could avoid military service.
(c) The gestapo would be forced to leave him alone and he would have freedom of movement to continue his work as a pastor.
(d) The Abwehr had become a front organization for helping Jews leave Germany.

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

3. How does Metaxas report that Bonhoeffer was discovered to be involved in Operation 7?
(a) Bonhoeffer's Catholic friend, Joseph Muller, surrendered his involvement with several others while being held in a Gestapo prison.
(b) A high-ranking Swiss official told the Nazis who was involved.
(c) The Nazis were able to infiltrate the conspiracy that involved Bonhoeffer.
(d) His involvement was detailed in what had become known as the Zossen Papers.

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

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

6. What does Metaxas claim to be the major obstacle that inhibited the relationship between Bonhoeffer and Maria von Wedemeyer from developing, according to Metaxas?
(a) She was a close intimate of Hitler's inner circle.
(b) She was a member of the German Christians.
(c) He was 36 and she was 18.
(d) She was a dedicated Nazi.

7. 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?
(a) "Those who commit themselves to Hitler have removed themselves from the hope of salvation."
(b) "Whoever knowingly separates himself from the Confessing Church in Germany separates himself from salvation."
(c) "One cannot be both Christian and National Socialist."
(d) "The National Socialists are making Germans the enemies of Christ."

8. To what Biblical prophets did Metaxas compare Bonhoeffer based upon the speech he gave at Fano?
(a) Nehemiah and Jeremiah.
(b) Daniel and Samuel.
(c) John the Baptist and Elijah.
(d) Jeremiah and Jonah.

9. Who does Metaxas identify as the individual who was largely responsible for helping Bonhoeffer have a purpose for going to America before Germany started a war?
(a) Reinhold Niebuhr.
(b) Henry Sloan Coffin.
(c) Paul Lehmann.
(d) Henry Leiper.

10. How was Bonhoeffer defined by an ordainant from Finkewalde Seminary quoted by Metaxas?
(a) "For Bonhoeffer there was no compromise when it came to living out biblical truth."
(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) Bonhoeffer was, "...a lightning rod for controversy and his persistent defiance of the government had him and his friends in constant turmoil."

11. Why did Colonel Claus von Sauffenberg join the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler, according to Metaxas?
(a) He could not face his conscience if he did not act.
(b) A devout Catholic, Sauffenberg agreed with Bonhoeffer that the Nazis were attempting to eliminate the Christian religion.
(c) He was disgusted with Hitler when he witnessed the treatment of Polish prisoners of war in 1939 and for the murder of the Jews.
(d) Stauffenberg could rise in political rank and someday be the Chancellor of Germany if he successfully killed Hitler.

12. 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 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.
(d) The church had to be as wise as serpents but as gentle as doves.

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

14. What does Metaxas suggest gave Bonhoeffer hope on Easter Sunday, 1945?
(a) The sound of allied weaponry and bombs approaching Buchenwald.
(b) Many of the prison guards were not showing up at their stations so they could escape capture by American soldiers.
(c) His renewed faith that the Resurrection symbolized he would come through his imprisonment.
(d) News from General von Falkenhausen, one of the inmates with Bonhoeffer, that the German defeat was at hand.

15. How does Metaxas explain the Nuremberg laws affected the Jews?
(a) The Nuremberg laws led directly to the Krystallnacht.
(b) The Nuremberg laws opened the floodgate of emigration of Jews out of Germany.
(c) The Nuremberg laws socially isolated the Jews by forbidding non-Jews from socializing with them.
(d) The Nuremberg laws removed German citizenship from the Jews and made them subjects of the German government.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Metaxas suggest that Bonhoeffer meant by "religionless Christianity"?

3. On the day that Bonhoeffer was arrested, what does Metaxas report Maria had written to Bonhoeffer in her diary?

4. 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?

5. What does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer recognized while he planned to carry out his engagement with Maria and proceed with plans to assassinate Hitler?

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