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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 speculation does Metaxas make as to why the former Nazi official who performed medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners was placed in confinement?
(a) Because he had come to his conscience and refused to conduct any more experiments.
(b) He had become disgusted with his work and joined the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler.
(c) He was found to be keeping records of what he was doing for the Nazis so he could share them with allied officials to incriminate his superiors.
(d) Because he attempted to publish his findings in a Swiss medical journal so they could be more widely used.

2. What reservations does Metaxas claim Maria's sister and her husband had regarding Bonhoeffer?
(a) His role in the conspiracy against Hitler.
(b) His age.
(c) His role as a pastor for an underground church.
(d) His involvement with the Abwehr.

3. Who in the conspiracy against Hitler does Metaxas suggest was arrested before Bonhoeffer?
(a) Wilhelm Schmidhuber.
(b) Hans Oster.
(c) Hans Dohnanyi.
(d) Joseph Muller.

4. What happened to Gersdorff after his failed attempt?
(a) He lived until 1980.
(b) He was executed with Bonhoeffer and his other co-conspirators.
(c) He was blown up and the incident exposed the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler.
(d) He fled to Switzerland.

5. Why did Colonel Claus von Sauffenberg join the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler, according to Metaxas?
(a) He was disgusted with Hitler when he witnessed the treatment of Polish prisoners of war in 1939 and for the murder of the Jews.
(b) Stauffenberg could rise in political rank and someday be the Chancellor of Germany if he successfully killed Hitler.
(c) A devout Catholic, Sauffenberg agreed with Bonhoeffer that the Nazis were attempting to eliminate the Christian religion.
(d) He could not face his conscience if he did not act.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Metaxas claim to have inspired Bonhoeffer and his fellow prisoners to hang on through their imprisonment in Buchenwald?

2. What does Metaxas suggest gave Bonhoeffer hope on Easter Sunday, 1945?

3. What does Metaxas suggest that Bonhoeffer meant by "religionless Christianity"?

4. According to Metaxas, why did the Gestapo take Bonhoeffer for execution?

5. What relationship did Bonhoeffer have with Maria von Wedemeyer before he had seen her while visiting her grandmother?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the Anschluss of Austria provide Hitler with wave of popular support in Germany, according to Metaxas?

2. What did Reichsbischof Mueller's arrest of the Lutheran Bishops of Werttemberg and Bavaria lead members of the Confessing Church to realize according to Metaxas?

3. What does Metaxas report to be the response of every Norwegian Pastor after Bishop Berggrav was placed under house arrest?

4. According to a quote by Oskar Hammelsbeck cited by Metaxas, how had Bonhoeffer's moral convictions and his view of guilt lead him to be involved with the conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler?

5. What does Metaxas claim to be Bonhoeffer's indication that the Gestapo was preparing to arrest him?

6. What did Metaxas report to be the event that led to the Kristallnacht?

7. What were the reasons that Metaxas cites that led Bonhoeffer to consider the assassination of Adolf Hitler to be necessary?

8. How does Metaxas claim Dohnanyi and Bonhoeffer tried to fool the Gestapo with letters between them while they were in captivity.

9. What does Metaxas report of Hans von Wedemeyer that makes him unique?

10. Why had the original attempt to assassinate Hitler failed, according to Metaxas?

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