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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. At what age does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer completed his second postdoctoral thesis?
(a) 27
(b) 33
(c) 23
(d) 31

2. What does Metaxas report to be Bonhoeffer's first ministry?
(a) Teaching and preaching to a youth Sunday school class in the Grunewald parish.
(b) The associate pastorship in Barcelona.
(c) The Thursday Circle.
(d) 14 Wangenheimstrasse.

3. How did Henry Smithe Lieper explain how Bonhoeffer was different from his pastoral peers in Germany, according to Metaxas?
(a) Bonhoeffer had a unique combination of formal training and familial connections that gave him inside knowledge of what was really happening in Germany.
(b) None of his colleagues were as wise, fearless, or defiant regarding the tyranny that loomed in the future for German Christians.
(c) Bonhoeffer approached the intrusions with confidence instead of fear.
(d) Bonhoeffer could approach the problems of the Nazis from a detached, objective perspective unique to living in a foreign country.

4. What is the explanation that Metaxas gives for Bonhoeffer's willingness to join the same fraternity his father, Igel, when he attended Berlin University?
(a) Igel members were well known for their elaborate hats and dueling scars.
(b) Igel had direct political connections to the line of German Chancellors dating back to the 19th century.
(c) Igel was politically moderate and patriotic, but not nationalistic.
(d) Igel eschewed the use of alcohol.

5. What part of Bonhoeffer's trip to New York does Metaxas suggest had the most influence on his changed preaching style?
(a) His viewing of "All Quiet on the Western Front" with a Frenchman.
(b) His worship at the "negro churches".
(c) His road trip to Mexico.
(d) His involvement in the debate between secularists and fundamentalists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Metaxas report to be the occupations of Bonhoeffer's parents?

2. How did Bonhoeffer characterize German emigres in Barcelona, according to a quote used by Metaxas?

3. For what reason does Metaxas report that Bonhoeffer and Hermann Sasse wrote the Bethel Confession?

4. According to Metaxas, to what did ideas and beliefs have to relate before Bonhoeffer would consider them worthwhile?

5. Why does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer did not marry his first love?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Metaxas report to be Churchill's response to conspiracies to assassinate Adolf Hitler seeking allied support?

2. How does Metaxas record the German Reich came into existence?

3. What does Metaxas identify as the Greek idea that Bonhoeffer considered to be "the most sever enemy" that Christianity ever had?

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

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

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

7. For what was Bonhoeffer's maternal great-grandfather, Karl August von Hase, well known according to Metaxas?

8. How does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer suggested Christians' treatment of Christ while he was in Barcelona?

9. What does Metaxas highlight from Harry Emerson Fosdick's Sermon, "Shall the Fundamentalists Win?"

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

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