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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 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) 3. Bethge said that Bonhoeffer knew that his role in the assassination attempt was a sin that fell outside of his Christian faith.
(b) Bethge explained that as the Hitler regime became more murderous, mere confession of beliefs with out action essentially became complicity with the murders.
(c) 4. Bethge said that Bonhoeffer told him that God and instructed him how to kill Hitler.
(d) 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.

2. What international event prevented a conspiracy from declaring Hitler insane and removing him from office, according to Metaxas?
(a) The Krystallnacht.
(b) The Anschluss of Austria.
(c) The resignation of General Ludwig von Beck.
(d) Neville Chamberlain appearing in Munich to negotiate the peaceful German occupation of Czechoslovakia?

3. For what reason does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer left London for Berlin?
(a) Because he felt the need to pick up his opposition to Hitler in his homeland.
(b) Because the Foreign Ministry of the Government had ordered him home.
(c) To report for duty as the imminent head of the first seminary in the Confessing Church.
(d) To organize his associated in the Confessing Church for a more effective stand against the Nazis.

4. Why does Metaxas identify Bethge as an important figure for Bonhoeffer's legacy?
(a) Bethge would pick up Bonhoeffer's ministry after he was sent to prison.
(b) Bethge would preserve many of Bonhoeffer's writings and distribute them through the world.
(c) Bethge would keep very close contact with Bonhoeffer during his time in prison.
(d) Bonhoeffer would confide in Bethge about some of his bouts with depression.

5. How does Metaxas explain the Nuremberg laws affected the Jews?
(a) The Nuremberg laws opened the floodgate of emigration of Jews out of Germany.
(b) The Nuremberg laws socially isolated the Jews by forbidding non-Jews from socializing with them.
(c) The Nuremberg laws removed German citizenship from the Jews and made them subjects of the German government.
(d) The Nuremberg laws led directly to the Krystallnacht.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What former theological nemesis of Bonhoeffer's does Metaxas report to have joined a conspiracy against Hitler?

3. What speculation does Metaxas make as to why the former Nazi official who performed medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners was placed in confinement?

4. What does Metaxas identify as the major difference between the ecumenical movement and Bonhoeffer with regard to WWII?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did the Gestapo begin to investigate those who were involved in Operation 7, according to Metaxas?

3. What does Metaxas define as the Godesberg Declaration?

4. 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.

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. Why does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer was arrested by the Gestapo?

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