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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 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 of speech, press, and assembly.
(c) 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.
(d) Freedom to stand on biblical doctrine, Freedom of dissent with the government, and Freedom to instruct its youth the principles of Christianity.

2. What was a criticism that Bonhoeffer made of his head pastor in Barcelona, Friedrich Olbricht?
(a) Olbricht had, "...lost his zeal for the church and had become disinterested in applying biblical truths to the modern world."
(b) Olbricht was gone too much and left too many of the responsibilities of the parish to him.
(c) Olbricht, "...has...done nothing in the was of addressing the younger generation in his parish."
(d) Olbricht was, "Too demanding of his expectations that I understand all the challenges of his pastorate."

3. How does Metaxas describe the "Thursday Circle"?
(a) A study group with which he met as he worked through his doctorate.
(b) A discussion group of young men Bohnoeffer personally selected.
(c) A group of friends who gathered at 14 Wangenheimstrasse.
(d) The children in his Sunday school class who would come to his house.

4. What interests did Bonhoeffer's mother pass to her daughter?
(a) Her religious devotion.
(b) Her love of music and singing.
(c) Her interest in money and finance.
(d) Her passion for horticulture.

5. What does Metaxas use for the information upon which he builds his book?
(a) Public records of Bonhoeffers activities as a spy.
(b) Bonhoeffer's own writings.
(c) The collected works of Bonhoeffer's biographers.
(d) Interviews of Bonhoeffer's intimates.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the students with whom Bonhoeffer socialized while in New York, which does Metaxas claim had the greatest influence?

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

3. What threat did Theodor Heckel make against Bonhoeffer to make him stop his attempts to oppose the German church from England?

4. How did Bonhoeffer characterize his decision to go to Barcelona, according to Metaxas?

5. What was the reason that Bonhoeffer felt a separation from one of his mentors in Germany, Karl Barth, according to Metaxas?

Short Essay Questions

1. What marked the friendship between Bonhoeffer and Franz Reinhold Hildebrandt according to Metaxas?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Metaxas claim to be Hitler's goal in establishing the office of Reichsbischof (Reich bishop) over the church?

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

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

10. How does Metaxas explain the Fuherer Principle?

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