Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What does Metaxas claim annoyed Hitler regarding Christian teaching? (from Chapters 9 through 13)

That Christianity preached meekness.

That Jesus was Jewish.

That Christianity had a long tradition that could not be dismantled.

That Christianity taught that Jesus was the only begotten son of God.

2.

Who was the theologian that Metaxas reports Bonhoeffer lobbied to have placed in the University of Berlin that the Nazis rejected? (from Chapters 7 and 8)

Georg Wobbermin.

Karl Barth.

Erwin Sutz.

Emil Brunner.

3.

What seeming contradiction of Bonhoeffer's was amplified by the war, according to Metaxas? (from Chapters 20, 21 and 22)

Bonhoeffer would not be willing to kill as a soldier, but he was willing to conspire to kill Hitler.

Bonhoeffer was not a pacifist, but he did not support wars.

Bonhoeffer could not fight for Hitler's Germany, but he was extraordinarily supportive of those who did.

Bonhoeffer would not join the military, but he encouraged others to join.

4.

What does Metaxas suggest gave Bonhoeffer hope on Easter Sunday, 1945? (from Chapters 29, 30 and 31)

Many of the prison guards were not showing up at their stations so they could escape capture by American soldiers.

The sound of allied weaponry and bombs approaching Buchenwald.

News from General von Falkenhausen, one of the inmates with Bonhoeffer, that the German defeat was at hand.

His renewed faith that the Resurrection symbolized he would come through his imprisonment.

5.

What does Metaxas claim to have complicated relations between England and Germany while Bonhoeffer was in London? (from Chapters 14, 15 and 16)

The German Christians had begun purging Jewish Christians from protestant activities.

Hitler and Stalin agreed to the Nonaggression Pact.

Hitler was attempting to prove that he was someone who could be trusted in the international community.

Reinhold Krause had made a defamatory diatribe against German Jews during a celebration at the Berlin Sportpalast.

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