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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. How does Metaxas claim the movie "All Quiet on the Western Front" affected Bonhoeffer?
(a) It led him to believe that children should not be allowed into serious movies.
(b) It made him suspicious of Jewish film makers.
(c) It caused him to rethink his thoughts about the French.
(d) It influenced him to become a pacifist.

2. Who was the theologian that Metaxas reports Bonhoeffer lobbied to have placed in the University of Berlin that the Nazis rejected?
(a) Emil Brunner.
(b) Georg Wobbermin.
(c) Karl Barth.
(d) Erwin Sutz.

3. According to Metaxas, upon what basis were Jews persecuted in Nazi Germany?
(a) Jews were persecuted on racial grounds.
(b) Jews were persecuted on religious grounds.
(c) Jews were persecuted on economic grounds.
(d) Jews were persecuted on political grounds.

4. To what did Metaxas credit Bonhoeffer's intellectual independence and confidence in contradicting his theology professors?
(a) The experience he had during the German hyper inflation.
(b) His desire for cultural and intellectual stimulation.
(c) Growing up with Karl Bonhoeffer who would make him justify all his words.
(d) His experience in Rome.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer kept informed of the turmoil involving the German church?

2. Of what nation does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer to be a citizen?

3. What does Metaxas claim to have been a positive consequence of Bonhoeffer's Memorial service being held in England?

4. Why did the opponents the group, "German Christians" consider the name to be oxymoronic?

5. How does Metaxas claim Hitler viewed Christianity and the church?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Metaxas paraphrase Martin Luther to explain that faith in the Gospel affects individual lives?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Metaxas lament Martin Luther's late-in-life anti-Semitic comments?

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

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