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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer saw would destroy Germany after the defeat of France?
(a) He saw that they had become mindlessly controlled by the Nazi view for Germany.
(b) He saw that Germany would be destroyed by success.
(c) He saw that now that Germans were turning back history, Germans would be taken by jealousy for each other.
(d) He saw that Hitler would be able to lead them to their own destruction.

4. Who gave Hitler early congratulations for his successful annexation of Austria, according to Metaxas?
(a) Herman Goring.
(b) General Ludwig von Beck.
(c) General Wilhelm von Fritsch.
(d) Bishop Martin Sasse the Protestant Bishop of Thuringia, Austria.

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?
(a) Because he attempted to publish his findings in a Swiss medical journal so they could be more widely used.
(b) He was found to be keeping records of what he was doing for the Nazis so he could share them with allied officials to incriminate his superiors.
(c) He had become disgusted with his work and joined the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler.
(d) Because he had come to his conscience and refused to conduct any more experiments.

6. What does Metaxas suggest that Bonhoeffer meant by "religionless Christianity"?
(a) 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.
(b) 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.
(c) Bonhoeffer began to believe that the evils of the Nazis indicated that God was dead.
(d) 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.

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

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

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

10. 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) He felt that he had cut his ties with the church and started making decisions that were self serving.
(b) Life is not as easy as applying principles that define sin and righteousness.
(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.

11. 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 cannot be governed by mere principles, but must hear from God.
(d) That Christians reach points that they have no good choices.

12. 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) He was disgusted with Hitler when he witnessed the treatment of Polish prisoners of war in 1939 and for the murder of the Jews.
(c) A devout Catholic, Sauffenberg agreed with Bonhoeffer that the Nazis were attempting to eliminate the Christian religion.
(d) Stauffenberg could rise in political rank and someday be the Chancellor of Germany if he successfully killed Hitler.

13. What does Metaxas suggest to be the internal struggle regarding military service that troubled Bonhoeffer?
(a) 4. He did not want to join the military but did not want to be considered a coward.
(b) He did not want to join the military, but he did not want to leave Germany.
(c) He was looking for a way to obey his conscience, but would not force others to face consequences for his decisions.
(d) He was looking for a way to avoid military service without being imprisoned.

14. 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?
(a) He performed a worship service on Quasimodo Sunday (the first Sunday after Easter).
(b) He went to bed for the first time in three months.
(c) He had gone into his daily Bible verse meditation.
(d) He shared some potato salad and coffee with his fellow inmates.

15. 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) Bethge explained that as the Hitler regime became more murderous, mere confession of beliefs with out action essentially became complicity with the murders.
(b) 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.
(c) 3. Bethge said that Bonhoeffer knew that his role in the assassination attempt was a sin that fell outside of his Christian faith.
(d) 4. Bethge said that Bonhoeffer told him that God and instructed him how to kill Hitler.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. According to Metaxas, why didn't Hitler have everyone involved in the conspiracy against him immediately executed?

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

4. 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?

5. After Bonhoeffer announced he would be willing to personally kill Hitler, why does Metaxas claim he would have to resign from the Confessing Church?

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