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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Community.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What Bonhoeffer's purpose in writing Chapter 1?
(a) He draws upon examples and passages from the Bible to show how a community should live together.
(b) He draws upon examples from society to show how a community should live together.
(c) He draws upon examples and passages from the Bible to show how a seminary should be run.
(d) He draws upon examples from society to show why the Nazis should be overthrown.
2. According to Bonhoeffer, what was the first element that defined a Christian fellowship?
(a) Christians need others in order to survive the Nazis; they realize their own resources are not adequate to get them through the war.
(b) Christians need others because of Jesus Christ; they realize their own resources are not adequate to get them through life.
(c) Christians realize that it is safer for them to "go it alone" against the Nazis; to be together will be more dangerous. They will need to trust God to provide them individually with the resources they need to survive.
(d) Christians realize they don't need anyone else; they are self-sufficient in their own resources and can make it on their own.
3. What did Bonhoeffer intend Life Together to be?
(a) An illustration of spiritual life in an illegal, secret Protestant seminary within the historical context of Nazi Germany, 1935-1945.
(b) An autobiography of Bonhoeffer's life.
(c) A guide to the daily spiritual devotions of the seminary's community life.
(d) The Christian practices, beliefs, and principles by which Bonhoeffer leads his seminarians in daily life together.
4. Bonhoeffer firmly believed that a brotherhood is bound together by:
(a) Experience.
(b) Persecution.
(c) Faith.
(d) Shared possessions.
5. Christians see Bonhoeffer as having died for his faith. What term is applied to this?
(a) Prophet.
(b) Apostle.
(c) Priest.
(d) Martyr.
Short Answer Questions
1. Bonhoeffer's writings boil down to which following Scriptural statement?
2. In 1939, what does Dietrich Bonhoeffer commit himself to supporting?
3. In which country had Bonhoeffer been living prior to his return to Germany?
4. Who signed the execution order that authorized Bonhoeffer's execution?
5. Why did Bonhoeffer return to Germany?
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