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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. Toward the end of 1923, what does Metaxas claim could be bought with 100,000 marks?
(a) A bottle of wine and strawberries.
(b) A months rent.
(c) A week of groceries.
(d) A Mercedes Benz.

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

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

4. How did Bonhoeffer deal with the conduct of the students in Wedding?
(a) He patiently waited for them to become calm and then he would quietly tell them Bible stories.
(b) He ignored their antics with the realization his time there would be brief.
(c) He would drill them relentlessly with the strong-armed disciplinary tactics as his father.
(d) He gained the assistance of some of his friends who were in ministry to split the group into more manageable groups.

5. What threat did Theodor Heckel make against Bonhoeffer to make him stop his attempts to oppose the German church from England?
(a) Heckel pointed out that the government knew where Bonhoeffer's family lived.
(b) Heckel said that if Bonhoeffer returned he could be put in a concentration camp.
(c) Heckel implied that Bonhoeffer's activities with non-German church leaders were considered treasonous.
(d) Heckel said that he could use his position to have his degrees rescinded.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Metaxas report to be the subject of Bonhoeffer's first sermon in Barcelona?

2. What was Bonhoeffer's view of philosophy, according to Metaxas?

3. What is the one area in which Bonhoeffer's father saw a relationship with the work of his son, according to a letter cited by Metaxas?

4. What are three Freedoms that Bishop George Bell asked in the Name of the Gospel for Christians in the German Church?

5. What does Metaxas report to be Bonhoeffer's negotiating advantage during his time leading two congregations in London?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. According to Metaxas, why was Reformation Sunday an important celebration for churches in Germany?

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

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

10. What challenge did Bonhoeffer raise in his letter to Bishop Ammundsen, cited by Metaxas, regarding the ecumenical meeting in Fano?

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