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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 claim that Bonhoeffer recognized while he planned to carry out his engagement with Maria and proceed with plans to assassinate Hitler?
(a) He felt that he had cut his ties with the church and started making decisions that were self serving.
(b) God wants his children to operate out of freedom and joy to do what was right and good, not out of fear of making mistakes.
(c) Life is not as easy as applying principles that define sin and righteousness.
(d) He knew that he was facing by the SS and decided to finish some things that he had always wanted to do.

2. Why did Colonel Claus von Sauffenberg join the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler, according to Metaxas?
(a) A devout Catholic, Sauffenberg agreed with Bonhoeffer that the Nazis were attempting to eliminate the Christian religion.
(b) He was disgusted with Hitler when he witnessed the treatment of Polish prisoners of war in 1939 and for the murder of the Jews.
(c) Stauffenberg could rise in political rank and someday be the Chancellor of Germany if he successfully killed Hitler.
(d) He could not face his conscience if he did not act.

3. What speculation does Metaxas offer for the reason that the British government would not encourage German conspiracies to assassinate Hitler?
(a) Churchill wanted the credit of killing Hitler to go to a British scheme.
(b) Churchill wanted to mollify Stalin.
(c) Churchill was preoccupied with capturing and trying Hitler.
(d) Churchill did not believe that a German conspiracy could be successful.

4. What relationship did Bonhoeffer have with Maria von Wedemeyer before he had seen her while visiting her grandmother?
(a) He had refused to take the task of training her for her confirmation when she was 12 because she did not seem mature enough.
(b) He had acted as an uncle to her in the absence of her father who was sent to the Russian front.
(c) He trained her as a Bible student as part of the Confessing Church.
(d) He was a close friend of her brother's in the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler.

5. 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 learn to pray? How do I learn to read the Bible?
(b) What should be our view toward the Jews? Aren't we to honor the government since it was ordained by God?
(c) 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?
(d) How do I minister the Gospel under the opposition of the government? How do I protect my flock from the government?

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Gersdorff after his failed attempt?

2. What does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer's struggle with avoiding military service as Germany prepared for war proves regarding his thinking?

3. What dramatic event greeted Bonhoeffer as 1938 was beginning, according to Metaxas?

4. What event began WWII according to Metaxas?

5. Why was the plan to assassinate Hitler in Operation Flash not successful, according to Metaxas?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What were the reasons that Metaxas cites that led Bonhoeffer to consider the assassination of Adolf Hitler to be necessary?

4. 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?

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

10. What does Metaxas define as the Godesberg Declaration?

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