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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. What quote of Bonhoeffer's friend, Franz Hildebrandt, does Metaxas use to show the intellectual demands Bonhoeffer placed on those who were close to him.
(a) "Dietrich would ask for explanations and proofs of everything that came out of your mouth."
(b) "You could not be a friend of Dietrich's if you did not argue with him."
(c) "Dietrich would expect you to go to plays, operas, and museums with him and engage in lengthy conversations as to the significance of whatever was put before us."
(d) "He would know the answer to every question he asked you and put you under a constant test of your understanding of the Bible and the world."

2. According to Metaxas, to what did ideas and beliefs have to relate before Bonhoeffer would consider them worthwhile?
(a) The universal catholic church.
(b) The world of reality outside one's mind.
(c) The observations of great historians.
(d) The Bible.

3. What does Metaxas report to be the occupations of Bonhoeffer's parents?
(a) Doctor and Lawyer.
(b) Doctor and teacher.
(c) Teacher and physicist.
(d) Professor and Lawyer.

4. Why did the opponents the group, "German Christians" consider the name to be oxymoronic?
(a) Because they were following Adolf Hitler who was neither German or Christian.
(b) Because most Christians had already left Germany.
(c) Because many who were joining the group were not German or Christian.
(d) Because the group's embrace of heresy violated the definition of being Christian, and many true Germans disagreed with their positions.

5. How does Metaxas report a member of Igel described Bonhoeffer?
(a) "Far more rooted in his home than was customary among his fellow students."
(b) "Generally patriotic."
(c) "A Champion of the kaiser and the policies of Bismarck."
(d) "Extremely secure and self-confident, not vain, but 'able to tolerate criticism.'"

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Metaxas claim to be the priority of the congregations that Bonhoeffer led in London?

2. How did Henry Smithe Lieper explain how Bonhoeffer was different from his pastoral peers in Germany, according to Metaxas?

3. What does Metaxas report to be Hitler's proposal to navigate relations between the church and the German government?

4. What does Metaxas report to be the focus of Bonhoeffer's speech, "The Younger Generation's Altered Concept of Leadership", that he gave two days after Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany?

5. What was a recurring them that Bonhoeffer taught in the years before he became involved in the illegal seminaries of the Confessing Church, according to Metaxas?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Metaxas report to be the "Aryan Paragraph" that was enforced by the Nazi regime shortly after they took control of the German government.

2. What was a criticism of Bonhoeffer's regarding the communal living of American seminary students that was cited by Metaxas?

3. Why does Metaxas claim that meeting Karl Barth was important to Bonhoeffer?

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

5. What is the reason Metaxas gives for why the German church willingly capitulated to the demands of Adolf Hitler during the 1930's?

6. How did Bonhoeffer's parents hear of his death, according to Metaxas?

7. What does Metaxas report to be the "Night of the Long Knives"?

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

9. What does Metaxas suggest to be the motivation of Hitler's pro-Christian posturing as he was rising to power?

10. How does Metaxas explain how the movie "All Quiet on the Western Front" affected Bonhoeffer?

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