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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Day Alone.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Bonhoeffer, what is the purpose of the fellowship that takes place when meals are shared at the table?
(a) It is a chance to gorge oneself and establish one's position in the seminary.
(b) It is a chance to win the favor of Bonhoeffer by volunteering to do extra work around the seminary.
(c) It is an occasion to rejoice and celebrate the working day.
(d) It is an occasion to get nourishment and complain about how hard life is.

2. What Bonhoeffer's purpose in writing Chapter 1?
(a) He draws upon examples from society to show how a community should live together.
(b) He draws upon examples from society to show why the Nazis should be overthrown.
(c) He draws upon examples and passages from the Bible to show how a community should live together.
(d) He draws upon examples and passages from the Bible to show how a seminary should be run.

3. What did Bonhoeffer say that the blessings of successful struggle in solitude through the day alone and through strength of fellowship come from?
(a) Spending time with others.
(b) Receiving a paycheck.
(c) A sense of personal accomplishment.
(d) The Word of God.

4. In which concentration camp was Bonhoeffer executed, on April 9, 1945?
(a) Bergen-Belsen.
(b) Mauthausen.
(c) Auschwitz.
(d) Flossenburg.

5. What does Bonhoeffer belief should NOT start the day?
(a) Prayer of the fellowship.
(b) Concern for the day's work.
(c) Devotions of scripture reading.
(d) Hymns of the Church.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bonhoeffer call work?

2. Bonhoeffer believed in the Christian doctrine of a triune God. What is the definition of this doctrine?

3. In 1939, what does Dietrich Bonhoeffer commit himself to supporting?

4. Bonhoeffer's writings boil down to which following Scriptural statement?

5. At what time do the seminary's daily devotions begin?

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