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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What metaphor did Bonhoeffer use to illustrate how a fellowship can be injured?
(a) The telephone game.
(b) The cycle of unemployment, poverty, and welfare.
(c) Trying to carry something too heavy for you.
(d) A sick and infected physical body.

2. Upon what does the ministry of authority depend?
(a) Enforcing the laws.
(b) Intimidation.
(c) The seminary leader being well-qualified for the job.
(d) Brotherly service.

3. According to Bonhoeffer, solitude and silence are __________ to the individual and to the community.
(a) Mandatory.
(b) Optional.
(c) Essential.
(d) Not essential.

4. How did Bonhoeffer say that one may re-establish communication with the fellowship?
(a) By making a phone call.
(b) By undergoing a penance ritual.
(c) By paying a fine.
(d) By confessing sin.

5. What type of person did Bonhoeffer say one should seek out as a confessor?
(a) A brother who is a close friend.
(b) A brother who can be trusted with a secret.
(c) A brother who almost never sins.
(d) A brother who understands the community's needs.

6. What, according to Bonhoeffer, enables God's redeeming help to another?
(a) Practicing the Golden Rule.
(b) God only helps those who help themselves.
(c) Treating others the way you want them to treat you.
(d) Humbly renouncing one's own abilities.

7. What did Bonhoeffer say about one brother saying anything secretly against another, even with good intentions?
(a) There is nothing wrong with it
(b) It should be absolutely banned.
(c) He did not address it at all.
(d) It is permissible only if with good intentions.

8. Finish the following concept Bonhoeffer puts forth in Chapter 3: Only when one is at ease with fellowship....
(a) Can one understand God.
(b) Can one enjoy work.
(c) Can one be alone.
(d) Can one be with others.

9. According to Bonhoeffer, what is the purpose and goal of confession?
(a) Getting good dirt on your brothers.
(b) Forgiveness of sin alone.
(c) Both penance and forgiveness of sin.
(d) Establishing a pecking order in the fellowship.

10. In the ministry of bearing, what, according to Bonhoeffer, does a Christian fellowship do?
(a) Supports one another.
(b) Puts up with each other.
(c) Gives each other directions.
(d) Helps each other move.

11. What does Bonhoeffer say about the habits of self-justifying and judging others?
(a) They are sin.
(b) They are good.
(c) They are evil.
(d) They are normal human behavior.

12. What, according to Bonhoeffer's statements in Chapter 3, does silence for its own sake bring?
(a) Either despair and fear, or the false peace of self-deception.
(b) Either calm and relaxation, or tiredness and boredom.
(c) Either anxiety and anger, or the false peace of self-deception.
(d) Either despair and fear, or the false peace of self-enlightenment.

13. According to Bonhoeffer, what has broken one's fellowship both with God and with one's brethren?
(a) Sin.
(b) Anger.
(c) Gossip.
(d) Laziness.

14. What was the second evidence, according to Bonhoeffer, that a person's time spent in meditation, prayer, and intercession had put him in contact with God?
(a) He became able to work miracles.
(b) He became a more tolerant person.
(c) He became very narrow minded.
(d) His faith increased over time.

15. According to Bonhoeffer, Christ said in Scripture that a brother should receive Communion (also known as the Lord's Supper) only if:
(a) Reconciled to his brother.
(b) He has fasted the day before.
(c) He is hungry.
(d) He has washed his head, hands, and feet first.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bonhoeffer claim is a benefit of the ministry of helpfulness?

2. In Chapter 5, what did Bonhoeffer say the certainty of forgiveness requires?

3. According to what Bonhoeffer says, a ______ individual wants to be his own law.

4. According to Bonhoeffer, what does the whole life of a Christian consist of?

5. Before Bonhoeffer accepted his position at the seminary, he was considering going to India. What was he going to do in India?

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