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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. How does Metaxas explain that Bonhoeffer planned to escape from Tegel?
(a) His uncle, Paul von Hase, military commandant over Tegel, would have him released.
(b) By walking out with Corporal Knobloch in a mechanics uniform.
(c) By tunneling out from his cell.
(d) By hiding in a bag of dirty laundry to be delivered to a uniform service.

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

3. What former theological nemesis of Bonhoeffer's does Metaxas report to have joined a conspiracy against Hitler?
(a) Hans Schonfeld.
(b) George Bell.
(c) Theodor Heckel.
(d) Ludwig von Muller

4. How does Metaxas report that Hitler avoided political confrontations from his generals as he was making plans for war?
(a) He conducted the peaceful anchluss of Austria.
(b) He took command of the military by establishing the OKW and surrounding himself with supporters.
(c) He put out false stories that his major opponents in the military were homosexuals.
(d) He met with Neville Chamberlain to negotiate the peaceful acquisition of Czechoslovakia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why didn't the suicide plan involving Major Rudolf-Christoph von Gersdorff to kill Hitler with bombs hiding in Gersdorff's overcoat while Hitler attended a Hero's Memorial Day, according to Metaxas?

2. What was Bonhoeffer's next destination after he traveled to Sweden to share information regarding the conspiracy against Hitler with Bishop George Bell, according to Metaxas.

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

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

5. How did Bonhoeffer finally propose to Maria, according to Metaxas?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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