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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 does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer discovered of Spanish professors and contemporary Spanish writers?
(a) They were eager to receive Bonhoeffer's thoughts about ecumenicalism.
(b) They provided an elevated level of conversation.
(c) They were bitterly anti-clerical.
(d) They showed the same disciplined thought as his father.

2. What are three Freedoms that Bishop George Bell asked in the Name of the Gospel for Christians in the German Church?
(a) Freedom to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Freedom of assembly, and Freedom of dissent with the government.ospel for Christians in the German Church?
(b) Freedom to peach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Freedom of the printed word and assembly, Freedom of the Church to instruct its youth in the principles of Christianity.
(c) Freedom to stand on biblical doctrine, Freedom of dissent with the government, and Freedom to instruct its youth the principles of Christianity.
(d) Freedom of speech, press, and assembly.

3. How many children does Metaxas claim came to Bonhoeffer's first Sunday school class in Barcelona?
(a) One.
(b) 7.
(c) 15.
(d) 12.

4. Why does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer became a soldier?
(a) Because he became empathetic with a nationalist movement that identified the Treaty of Versailles as the cause of Germany's economic and social problems.
(b) Because he was conscripted into militia service as the limits placed on the German military by the Treaty of Versailles were insufficient to protect Germany from enemies and insurrections.
(c) Because he felt an obligation to offer his service to the benefit of the German Empire.
(d) Because military service was expected by his strict father.

5. What does Metaxas report to be the subject of Bonhoeffer's first sermon in Barcelona?
(a) The evils of judging based upon race.
(b) The comparison between a creationist view of origins and a Darwinist approach.
(c) The difference between a faith based on human moral efforts and one based on god's grace.
(d) An analysis between the historical critical view of the bible and the view of revelation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Metaxas suggest Karl Bonhoeffer met living expenses during the period of hyperinflation caused by the Treaty of Versailles?

2. What interests did Bonhoeffer's mother pass to her daughter?

3. What was the date of Bonhoeffer's death, according to Metaxas?

4. How does Metaxas indicate Deutsche Hilfsverein affected Bonhoeffer?

5. What does Metaxas suggest prevented Bonhoeffer from accepting his grandmother's encouragement to take a trip to India to visit Ghandi?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Metaxas report happened to the German mark beginning in 1923?

8. How did Bonhoeffer characterize religion in a lecture given while he was an assistant pastor in Barcelona, according to Metaxas?

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

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

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