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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. Where did Bonhoeffer first meet Eberhard Bethge, according to Metaxas?
(a) In Berlin upon his return from England.
(b) During one of the many social engagements at his parents home.
(c) On the peninsula of Zingst.
(d) During a conference with leaders of the Confessing Church.

2. What was the last thing Bonhoeffer did with the prisoners with whom he was in transit before he was taken by the Gestapo to be executed?
(a) He had gone into his daily Bible verse meditation.
(b) He went to bed for the first time in three months.
(c) He shared some potato salad and coffee with his fellow inmates.
(d) He performed a worship service on Quasimodo Sunday (the first Sunday after Easter).

3. What did Bonhoeffer claim to be the two main questions that young theologians brought to him in a letter to Karl Barth that was cited by Metaxas?
(a) How do I minister the Gospel under the opposition of the government? How do I protect my flock from the government?
(b) Should we strive to work within the government to change those practices that are immoral? Aren't we as Christians to humbly submit to the governing authority?
(c) What should be our view toward the Jews? Aren't we to honor the government since it was ordained by God?
(d) How do I learn to pray? How do I learn to read the Bible?

4. Why does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer's sister Sabine and her husband, Gerhard Leibholz, choose to flee Germany when they did?
(a) They left because they saw their relationship to Bonhoeffer as a threat to their children's safety.
(b) They left for a better life in England.
(c) They left to avoid the Kristallnacht.
(d) They left to avoid laws that would require passports of Jews to be specially marked.

5. How does Metaxas show how Eberhard Bethge explained how Bonhoeffer could accept the paradox of being a Christian involved in an assassination plot against a head of state?
(a) Bethge explained that as the Hitler regime became more murderous, mere confession of beliefs with out action essentially became complicity with the murders.
(b) 4. Bethge said that Bonhoeffer told him that God and instructed him how to kill Hitler.
(c) Metaxas showed that Bonhoeffer's fate was to eliminate Hitler, the cause of war, or accept a position in the military in which he would be involved in eliminate people with whom he had no disagreement.
(d) 3. Bethge said that Bonhoeffer knew that his role in the assassination attempt was a sin that fell outside of his Christian faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what Biblical prophets did Metaxas compare Bonhoeffer based upon the speech he gave at Fano?

2. How does Metaxas report that Hitler avoided political confrontations from his generals as he was making plans for war?

3. What does Metaxas report to be the one thing that Bonhoeffer did every day of his captivity?

4. What does Metaxas claim to be the major obstacle that inhibited the relationship between Bonhoeffer and Maria von Wedemeyer from developing, according to Metaxas?

5. What event began WWII according to Metaxas?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Metaxas suggest to be the reason that Bonhoeffer's uncle, Paul von Hase, spent a five hour visit at Tegel Prison on June 30, 1944.

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

4. Who was Metaxas' source of most of the information regarding Bonhoeffer during his time at Buchenwald?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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