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

Multiple Choice 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?
(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) Bethge explained that as the Hitler regime became more murderous, mere confession of beliefs with out action essentially became complicity with the murders.
(c) 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.
(d) 4. Bethge said that Bonhoeffer told him that God and instructed him how to kill Hitler.

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

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

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

5. What does Metaxas claim to be Bonhoeffer's view of death?
(a) It was the "last station on the road to freedom".
(b) It was his opportunity to enter into the glory of the Lord.
(c) It was a separation that was not requested or welcomed.
(d) It was the only way to see if Christian faith was true.

6. What reason did Metaxas give for the Bonhoeffer family's ability to escape scrutiny even though it was deeply involved in seditious activities?
(a) Their intelligence allowed them to communicate on several levels and get a precise message to an intended target.
(b) All of them were very skilled at "playing dumb".
(c) The Bonhoeffer's had connections throughout government that would overlook what they were doing.
(d) They were wealthy enough to bribe officials that were investigating them.

7. What happened to Gersdorff after his failed attempt?
(a) He was blown up and the incident exposed the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler.
(b) He was executed with Bonhoeffer and his other co-conspirators.
(c) He lived until 1980.
(d) He fled to Switzerland.

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

9. 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 direct order that all German military officers would be assigned a Nazi commissar to direct them in the proper German method of conducting combat.
(c) A military order that ordered that all Soviet commissars be captured and grilled for torture techniques.
(d) A military order that all captured Soviet military leaders were to be shot and killed.

10. Why does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer's sister Sabine and her husband, Gerhard Leibholz, choose to flee Germany when they did?
(a) They left for a better life in England.
(b) They left because they saw their relationship to Bonhoeffer as a threat to their children's safety.
(c) They left to avoid the Kristallnacht.
(d) They left to avoid laws that would require passports of Jews to be specially marked.

11. Why did Bonhoeffer recommend that Bethge keep up daily meditations on scripture even while he traveled according to Metaxas?
(a) Because Bonhoeffer didn't want prison to be a limit on his pastoral advise.
(b) Because Bonhoeffer believed that self-discipline was the most important part of being a pastor.
(c) Because Bonhoeffer wanted to feel the sense of connection with Bethge, even though he was in prison.
(d) Because doing so gives one a sense of grounding, continuity, and clarity.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Colonel Claus von Sauffenberg join the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler, according to Metaxas?

2. How does Metaxas indicate that Churchill harmed the conspiracy against Hitler?

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

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

5. What does Metaxas cite as the main reason that Bonhoeffer's treatment at Tegel was not as severe as it could have been?

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