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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 seeming contradiction of Bonhoeffer's was amplified by the war, according to Metaxas?
(a) Bonhoeffer would not be willing to kill as a soldier, but he was willing to conspire to kill Hitler.
(b) Bonhoeffer could not fight for Hitler's Germany, but he was extraordinarily supportive of those who did.
(c) Bonhoeffer was not a pacifist, but he did not support wars.
(d) Bonhoeffer would not join the military, but he encouraged others to join.

2. What does Metaxas report to be the commissar order?
(a) A direct order that all German military officers would be assigned a Nazi commissar to direct them in the proper German method of conducting combat.
(b) A military order that all captured Soviet military leaders were to be shot and killed.
(c) A military order that ordered that all Soviet commissars be captured and grilled for torture techniques.
(d) A direct order that all prisoners taken by the German military were to be placed under the direct command of an SS commissar.

3. How did the Treaty of Versailles play a role in protecting Hitler from a coup, according to Metaxas?
(a) The treaty prohibited any action on their part unless it was taken under the advisement of the allied powers that wrote it.
(b) The treaty prohibited such treachery as they were planning in their coup.
(c) The German generals desired to overthrow the treaty so they accepted the victories to which Hitler led them.
(d) Hitler pointed out that the treaty prohibited their jobs from existing, so he showed that his violating it was in their benefit.

4. Why does Metaxas identify Bethge as an important figure for Bonhoeffer's legacy?
(a) Bonhoeffer would confide in Bethge about some of his bouts with depression.
(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) Bethge would pick up Bonhoeffer's ministry after he was sent to prison.

5. What does Metaxas claim to be a motivation for Bonhoeffer's letter writing style while he was in prison?
(a) To assure his parents he was safe.
(b) To give his captors a framework through which they would evaluate his interrogations.
(c) To make his captors believe he was enjoying his captivity.
(d) To fool his captors into believing he was arrested wrongfully.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On the day that Bonhoeffer was arrested, what does Metaxas report Maria had written to Bonhoeffer in her diary?

3. Where did Bonhoeffer first meet Eberhard Bethge, according to Metaxas?

4. Who does Metaxas report to be an inmate of Bonhoeffer who once performed brutal medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

8. How did Bonhoeffer send coded messages to his family while was in captivity, according to Metaxas.

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

10. 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?

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