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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Bohnoeffers' first impression of American theology students, according to documents cited by Metaxas.

2. What does Metaxas report to be the name of the church wherein Bonhoeffer heard the preaching of Adam Clayton Powell, Sr.?

3. What does Metaxas claim to have given Bonhoeffer any value during his trip to New York?

4. Why does Metaxas claim that the Nazis used Martin Luther's late writings regarding Jews to promote their agenda against the Jews.

5. What was the biblical text that Luther used for his sermon at Kaiser Wilhelm memorial Church, according to Metaxas?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Metaxas claim to have been the make-up of Bonhoeffer's confirmation class in Wedding?

2. How does Metaxas record the German Reich came into existence?

3. What does Metaxas claim to be Hitler's goal in establishing the office of Reichsbischof (Reich bishop) over the church?

4. Why does Metaxas claim that meeting Karl Barth was important to Bonhoeffer?

5. How does Metaxas explain the Fuherer Principle?

6. Why does Metaxas lament Martin Luther's late-in-life anti-Semitic comments?

7. What marked the friendship between Bonhoeffer and Franz Reinhold Hildebrandt according to Metaxas?

8. How does Metaxas explain how the movie "All Quiet on the Western Front" affected Bonhoeffer?

9. What does Metaxas report to be the "Aryan Paragraph" that was enforced by the Nazi regime shortly after they took control of the German government.

10. How does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer suggested Christians' treatment of Christ while he was in Barcelona?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As the Nazis became more assertive over the affairs of the church, Bonhoeffer and Hermann Sasse constructed the Bethel Confession which Metaxas claims, "...was to spell out the true and historic Christian faith, which contrasted with Ludwig Muller's facile and inchoate "theology." Identify the main points of the confession and the its ultimate fate after it was circulated among Germany's top clergy. What were the motivations of various clergymen to act in the fashion they did to the language of the Confession? Were their action dedicated to the defense of Christianity? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Detail the political challenges that faced Hitler in the fall of 1937 as he began preparing his agenda for territorial expansion and wars. Identify who could have confronted Hitler and had him removed from his office, the political tools those individual had, and what sort of mechanisms could have been used to accomplish the task. What are the risks that faced those who would have taken such actions?

Essay Topic 3

While Bonhoeffer was in America he was exposed to the segregation of American blacks from the mainstream of white social institutions. Explain how Bonhoeffer responded to this from his theological viewpoint and how his time in America prepared him to respond to Nazi reprisals against the Jews.

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