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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 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) How do I learn to pray? How do I learn to read the Bible?
(c) What should be our view toward the Jews? Aren't we to honor the government since it was ordained by God?
(d) 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?

2. What does Metaxas claim to have inspired Bonhoeffer and his fellow prisoners to hang on through their imprisonment in Buchenwald?
(a) The hymns that Bonhoeffer gently sang.
(b) The presence of Bonhoeffer's quiet courage.
(c) The knowledge that any moment might bring their liberation or their deaths.
(d) The willingness of all the prisoners to cooperate to try to find their way of escape.

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) Hitler pointed out that the treaty prohibited their jobs from existing, so he showed that his violating it was in their benefit.
(c) The German generals desired to overthrow the treaty so they accepted the victories to which Hitler led them.
(d) The treaty prohibited such treachery as they were planning in their coup.

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

5. 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 performed a worship service on Quasimodo Sunday (the first Sunday after Easter).
(c) He went to bed for the first time in three months.
(d) He shared some potato salad and coffee with his fellow inmates.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Metaxas claim that Operation Flash got it's name?

2. Who gave Hitler early congratulations for his successful annexation of Austria, according to Metaxas?

3. When does Metaxas record Maria learned of Bonhoeffer's arrest?

4. How was Bonhoeffer defined by an ordainant from Finkewalde Seminary quoted by Metaxas?

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

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 did Reichsbischof Mueller's arrest of the Lutheran Bishops of Werttemberg and Bavaria lead members of the Confessing Church to realize according to Metaxas?

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

4. Who does Metaxas claim to be the first person to recognize the chemistry between Maria von Wedemeyer and Bonhoeffer?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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