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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. To what conclusion does Metaxas report Bonhoeffer arrived in a journal entry regarding his observations of art and his criticism of art historians?

2. Where was Bonhoeffer's memorial service, according to Metaxas?

3. Why does Metaxas claim that Bonhoeffer often mentioned the Tower of Babel in his sermons?

4. To what did Metaxas credit much of Luther's bitterness toward the Jews and others at the end of his life?

5. What does Metaxas claim Bonhoeffer discovered of Spanish professors and contemporary Spanish writers?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the opponents to Reichbischof Muller's position consider the term "German Christians" to be oxymoronic?

2. For what was Bonhoeffer's father, Karl Bonhoeffer, internationally renowned, according to Metaxas?

3. What was a criticism of Bonhoeffer's regarding the communal living of American seminary students that was cited by Metaxas?

4. How did Bonhoeffer's parents hear of his death, according to Metaxas?

5. Who does Metaxas claim to have inspired Bonhoeffer to desire to travel to Rome?

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

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

8. How did Bonhoeffer characterize religion in a lecture given while he was an assistant pastor in Barcelona, according to Metaxas?

9. Why does Metaxas claim that the people of Germany were impatient with the Weimar Republic?

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

Bonhoeffer began challenging Nazi oppressions almost from the moment he returned to Germany from America. Compare and contrast Bonhoeffer's theological views, including his views of eucumenicalism, to those of Hitler and the Nazis and how the two separate theological views played themselves out in Bonhoeffer's life and during the Nazi regime in Germany.

Essay Topic 2

How had Hitler's occupation of France turned back much of the animosity that had built up between him and his generals? Did the German public return to his support for the same reason? Give reasons that, in spite of the success of the German army in conquering France, that Christians in Germany should have held to their opposition against Hitler. Also provide reasons that they did not.

Essay Topic 3

Review the Bonhoeffer's inmates at Buchenwald. Detail how his relationship with them upheld his views of Christian leadership and the principles of inclusion that he pursued through the ecumenical movement.

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