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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 cite as the main reason that Bonhoeffer's treatment at Tegel was not as severe as it could have been?
(a) The guards at Tegel found Bonhoeffer to be a good man who treated them with kindness.
(b) Bonhoeffer's fame as a pastor and public opponent to the Nazis made him something of a celebrity.
(c) Bonhoeffer's uncle, Paul von Hase, was the military commandant who had authority over the top warden at Tegel.
(d) The officials at Tegel were inwardly anti-Nazi like Bonhoeffer.

2. What speculation does Metaxas make as to why the former Nazi official who performed medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners was placed in confinement?
(a) Because he had come to his conscience and refused to conduct any more experiments.
(b) He had become disgusted with his work and joined the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler.
(c) Because he attempted to publish his findings in a Swiss medical journal so they could be more widely used.
(d) He was found to be keeping records of what he was doing for the Nazis so he could share them with allied officials to incriminate his superiors.

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

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

5. Who in the conspiracy against Hitler does Metaxas suggest was arrested before Bonhoeffer?
(a) Joseph Muller.
(b) Hans Oster.
(c) Hans Dohnanyi.
(d) Wilhelm Schmidhuber.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Metaxas explain that Bonhoeffer planned to escape from Tegel?

2. How had the relationship come to be known to Maria's mother, according to Metaxas?

3. What question does Metaxas raise with regard to Bonhoeffer's interest in taking a trip to India to visit Ghandi?

4. What does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer saw would destroy Germany after the defeat of France?

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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