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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. What did Bonhoeffer believe that experiencing loneliness could do for Christians?
(a) It could make them loners, unwilling to properly participate in church life.
(b) It enables them to recognize each other in the presence of Christ.
(c) It enables them to recognize the presence of Christ in each other.
(d) It could discourage them and cause them to give up their faith.

2. Ten years after Bonhoeffer's death, what event takes place in commemoration of his sacrifice?
(a) Bavarian pastors erect a monument in his honor.
(b) He is awarded a posthumous Nobel prize.
(c) The Pope canonizes him.
(d) His seminary re-opens in Finkenwalde.

3. What level of importance does Bonhoeffer place on intercession?
(a) It's essential to salvation.
(b) It's essential to the survival of the Church.
(c) It's essential to one's relatives escaping purgatory.
(d) It's essential to the survival of Christian fellowship.

4. What does Bonhoeffer do after the Nazis forbid him to teach, write, or publish?
(a) He continues to teach, write, and publish in defiance of the Nazi ban, traveling throughout Germany to do so.
(b) He flees the country and takes a pastorate in England.
(c) He complies with the order and travels throughout Germany encouraging other Christians to do the same.
(d) He flees to the United States and takes classes at Union Theological Seminary.

5. What did Bonhoeffer believe that human egos did to human relationships, without Christ's mediating influence?
(a) Developed harmony and good will, and enabled peace and understanding.
(b) The effect of the ego was neutral on the quality of the relationships.
(c) Incited conflict and strife and destroyed peace and understanding.
(d) Tended to drift from community to aloneness.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Bonhoeffer, solitude and silence are __________ to the individual and to the community.

2. What does Bonhoeffer call work?

3. What was Bonhoeffer's claim about singing that is not directed towards God?

4. What is the Greek word for the type of love found in a spiritual community, according to Bonhoeffer?

5. In Chapter 2, Bonhoeffer makes the following statement: "The Christian understands that the burden and labor of the day gives meaning to ______."

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