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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Metaxas, how did Karl Bonhoeffer, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's father, meet Bonhoeffer's mother, the former Paula von Hase?
(a) He met her in her role as an assistant to Karl Wernicke, an internationally renowned professor of psychiatry.
(b) He met her while on a tour to Breslau.
(c) He met her while ice skating on the canals in the morning.
(d) He met her at an "open evening" at the house of physicist Oscar meyer.

2. What does Metaxas report to be Bonhoeffer's negotiating advantage during his time leading two congregations in London?
(a) He could communicate Nazi demands around the world and expose their true intentions.
(b) He could have free communications with the ecumenical movement around the world and bring them to pressure Nazi intrusions in church affairs.
(c) He could separate the German churches in England from the official German church and harm Germany's international reputation.
(d) He could train young Germans in the biblical heritage of the church and send them to Germany to challenge the German Christians.

3. How did Metaxas define the Aryan Paragraph?
(a) The true German race is defined by the Aryan ideal that all government employees will be racially pure.
(b) It was a paragraph within the Enabling Acts that forbid anyone but Aryans from working in government.
(c) Government employees must be of "Aryan" stock; anyone of Jewish descent would lose his job.
(d) It was a paragraph in a document put out by the Ministry of Health that declared all but the Aryan race was inferior and disease ridden.

4. For what reason does Metaxas report that Bonhoeffer and Hermann Sasse wrote the Bethel Confession?
(a) To encourage Protestant pastors to revolt against the Nazi religious agenda.
(b) To spell out the basics of the true and historic Christian faith.
(c) To reestablish the roles of confession of sin and forgiveness in Christian practice.
(d) To admit to the German clergy his points of dissent with the Nazis.

5. What does Metaxas report to be the response of the German Christians to the choice of Friedrich von Bodelschwing as Reichsbischof?
(a) They chose to name their own Reichsbischof and follow him.
(b) They appealed to Hitler to rescind von Bodelschwing's selection.
(c) They accepted von Bodelschwing with reservations.
(d) They began to attack him, hoping to overturn the election by any means necessary.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what did Bonhoeffer compare a crowd at a bullfight, according to Metaxas?

2. To what did Metaxas credit Bonhoeffer's intellectual independence and confidence in contradicting his theology professors?

3. Metaxas quotes Eberhard Bethge as claiming that Bonhoeffer grew up in a family that believed what about learning?

4. What accomplishment of Bonhoeffer's maternal great grandfather, Karl August von Hase, does Metaxas credit with fueling Bonhoeffer's interest in Rome?

5. Who does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer's first love to be?

Short Essay Questions

1. What event during Bonhoeffer's trip to Rome does Metaxas suggest to have begun developing Bonhoeffer's understanding of the concept of "church"?

2. What does Metaxas write to be the significance of the Nazi's burning the books of Erich Remarque?

3. Who does Metaxas claim to have inspired Bonhoeffer to desire to travel to Rome?

4. For what was Bonhoeffer's father, Karl Bonhoeffer, internationally renowned, according to Metaxas?

5. What does Metaxas claim to have been the make-up of Bonhoeffer's confirmation class in Wedding?

6. What does Metaxas claim to be Bonhoeffer's goal in writing the Bethel Confession?

7. What were the liberal theological ideas promoted by Adolf von Harnack with which Bonhoeffer disagreed, according to Metaxas?

8. How does Metaxas claim that Karl Barth influenced Bonhoeffer's theological approach?

9. Why does Metaxas claim that the people of Germany were impatient with the Weimar Republic?

10. How did the opponents to Reichbischof Muller's position consider the term "German Christians" to be oxymoronic?

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