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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Community.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Life Together, Bonhoeffer publishes two additional books before which following event happens?
(a) The government forbids him to write or publish.
(b) The seminary is closed.
(c) He is thrown into prison.
(d) Hitler dies.

2. On April 8, 1945, when Bonhoeffer is taken to death row to be hanged the following day, what is he doing when he is taken from his cell?
(a) He is finishing a prayer in a service that he is conducting.
(b) He is serving Communion.
(c) He is writing a book.
(d) He is reading his Bible.

3. 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.

4. Who is arrested along with Bonhoeffer in 1943?
(a) His wife and children.
(b) His sister and brother.
(c) His mother and father.
(d) His sister and brother-in-law.

5. According to Bonhoeffer, what was the third element that defines a Christian fellowship?
(a) Christian fellowships are transitory and temporary.
(b) Christians were chosen by God to be Christians from eternity (predestination).
(c) Christian fellowships always end in strife and failure because they involve selfish, fallen humans.
(d) Christians were not chosen by God to be Christians from eternity (free will).

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bonhoeffer do after the Nazis forbid him to teach, write, or publish?

2. Bonhoeffer claimed that a Christian community is a ______ reality.

3. What German city did Bonhoeffer return to?

4. In which German city did Bonhoeffer grow up?

5. Who signed the execution order that authorized Bonhoeffer's execution?

(see the answer key)

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