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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 event does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer saw Psalms 74 as being a direct communication from God regarding the situation in Germany?
(a) The Enabling Acts.
(b) The 1936 Olympics.
(c) The Kristallnacht.
(d) The Night of the Long Knives.

2. How does Metaxas claim that Operation Flash got it's name?
(a) Because it was a plan to blow up Hitler's plane while he was being flown over Minsk.
(b) It was a plan to set fire to Hitler's home.
(c) It got it's name because they had planned to have a sniper shoot Hitler when a spotlight came on him during a Nazi rally.
(d) It was a plan to put a suicide bomber in a meeting with Hitler.

3. On the day that Bonhoeffer was arrested, what does Metaxas report Maria had written to Bonhoeffer in her diary?
(a) "Can you still remember every word we exchanged?"
(b) "Has something bad happened? I'm afraid it's something very bad."
(c) "I can' go on like this. I have to know--are you really in danger?"
(d) "When you laughed and told me not to worry, I knew all at once that it wasn't true., what grandmother had said,..."

4. Who does Metaxas report to be an inmate of Bonhoeffer who once performed brutal medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners?
(a) "Heidl".
(b) Dr. Waldemar Hoven.
(c) General von Falkenhausen.
(d) Dr. Sigmund Rascher.

5. What does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer recognized while he planned to carry out his engagement with Maria and proceed with plans to assassinate Hitler?
(a) Life is not as easy as applying principles that define sin and righteousness.
(b) He knew that he was facing by the SS and decided to finish some things that he had always wanted to do.
(c) He felt that he had cut his ties with the church and started making decisions that were self serving.
(d) God wants his children to operate out of freedom and joy to do what was right and good, not out of fear of making mistakes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Metaxas identify as the individual who was largely responsible for helping Bonhoeffer have a purpose for going to America before Germany started a war?

2. How does Metaxas report that Bonhoeffer was discovered to be involved in Operation 7?

3. How does Metaxas explain the Nuremberg laws affected the Jews?

4. What speculation does Metaxas offer for the reason that the British government would not encourage German conspiracies to assassinate Hitler?

5. How did the Treaty of Versailles play a role in protecting Hitler from a coup, according to Metaxas?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Metaxas identify as a major criticism that Bonhoeffer made of both the international ecumenical movement and the German Confessing Church?

4. For what reason does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer left London for Berlin?

5. What was the most significant aspect of the relationship between Ruth von Kleist-Retzow and Bonhoeffer, according to Metaxas?

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

7. What does Metaxas define as the Godesberg Declaration?

8. Who does Metaxas claim the conspiracy was targeting for assassination besides Hitler?

9. What are two reasons Metaxas cited that German generals would not join a coup against Hitler after the conquering of France?

10. What does Metaxas claim to be Bonhoeffer's attitude about the death he was facing at the hands of the Nazis?

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