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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 does Metaxas report to be the meaning of the officials at Flossenburg telling the prisoners being transferred from Buchenwald that the camp was "too full" to receive them?
(a) The camp had been converted to a receiving center for refugees fleeing allied bombing.
(b) That those prisoners were not marked for death as the only purpose for Flossenburg was to execute prisoners.
(c) The winding down of the war meant the Germans were not wasting resources and time on political executions.
(d) That they were backlogged on executions and they would have to wait in another location until they could be "processed".

2. 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) Dr. Sigmund Rascher.
(d) General von Falkenhausen.

3. What does Metaxas suggest that Bonhoeffer meant by "religionless Christianity"?
(a) Bonhoeffer did not believe that the Nazis were going to be removed from Germany, so Christian churches would cease to exist and Christians were going to have to live out their faith.
(b) Bonhoeffer was seeing that it was time to recognize God's authority over the whole world and stop keeping Him in religious corners that we reserve for Him.
(c) Bonhoeffer began to believe that the evils of the Nazis indicated that God was dead.
(d) Bonhoeffer felt that his turmoil in prison was proving all his devotion to God to be a sham and he came to the point of renouncing his religion.

4. 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 Kristallnacht.
(c) The 1936 Olympics.
(d) The Night of the Long Knives.

5. Which of the following does Metaxas not report to have been arrested on the same day as Bonhoeffer?
(a) General Ludwig Beck
(b) Joseph Muller.
(c) Christine Bonhoeffer.
(d) Hans Dohnanyi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Metaxas cite as the first reason that Bonhoeffer joined the Abwehr?

2. How does Metaxas explain Bonhoeffer's view of the relationship of the church to the world?

3. What does Metaxas suggest to be the internal struggle regarding military service that troubled Bonhoeffer?

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

5. What happened to Gersdorff after his failed attempt?

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

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

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

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

6. Where did Hitler require the French to sign the instrument of surrender to Germany after Hitler had conquered them, according to Metaxas?

7. 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.

8. What does Metaxas define as the Godesberg Declaration?

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

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

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