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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Metaxas explain that Bonhoeffer planned to escape from Tegel?
(a) His uncle, Paul von Hase, military commandant over Tegel, would have him released.
(b) By hiding in a bag of dirty laundry to be delivered to a uniform service.
(c) By tunneling out from his cell.
(d) By walking out with Corporal Knobloch in a mechanics uniform.

4. How did the Treaty of Versailles play a role in protecting Hitler from a coup, according to Metaxas?
(a) The treaty prohibited such treachery as they were planning in their coup.
(b) The treaty prohibited any action on their part unless it was taken under the advisement of the allied powers that wrote it.
(c) Hitler pointed out that the treaty prohibited their jobs from existing, so he showed that his violating it was in their benefit.
(d) The German generals desired to overthrow the treaty so they accepted the victories to which Hitler led them.

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

6. 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.

7. How did the commissar order revitalize the conspiracy to overthrow Hitler?
(a) The generals felt that prisoners of war were their responsibility and could be used in productive supporting roles for their soldiers.
(b) The generals felt that adding an SS commissar to their entourage would slow down their progress.
(c) Many generals felt Soviet commissars could be used to find more important tactical information.
(d) Many generals considered the order to be an unreasonable violation of the rules of warfare.

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

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

10. 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 the Nazis were watching their every move and one of them was bound to slip up at some point.
(b) Because Hitler had a legion of demons around him that drove his evil in the spiritual realm.
(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 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

11. Why was the plan to assassinate Hitler in Operation Flash not successful, according to Metaxas?
(a) The suicide bomber who was to execute the plan lost his nerve.
(b) Hitler changed his plans and was not present when the conspirators thought he would be.
(c) The fuses did not detonate the bombs.
(d) Hitler was protected by an armor barrier that protected him from explosions.

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

13. What does Metaxas suggest that Bonhoeffer meant by "religionless Christianity"?
(a) Bonhoeffer felt that his turmoil in prison was proving all his devotion to God to be a sham and he came to the point of renouncing his religion.
(b) Bonhoeffer began to believe that the evils of the Nazis indicated that God was dead.
(c) Bonhoeffer was seeing that it was time to recognize God's authority over the whole world and stop keeping Him in religious corners that we reserve for Him.
(d) Bonhoeffer did not believe that the Nazis were going to be removed from Germany, so Christian churches would cease to exist and Christians were going to have to live out their faith.

14. 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) Paul Lehmann.
(b) Henry Sloan Coffin.
(c) Reinhold Niebuhr.
(d) Henry Leiper.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What seeming contradiction of Bonhoeffer's was amplified by the war, according to Metaxas?

2. What does Metaxas report to be the commissar order?

3. What was the last thing Bonhoeffer did with the prisoners with whom he was in transit before he was taken by the Gestapo to be executed?

4. How does Metaxas report that Bonhoeffer was discovered to be involved in Operation 7?

5. How had the relationship come to be known to Maria's mother, according to Metaxas?

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