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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Day with Others.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the seminary, what happens after morning devotions are over?
(a) Confession and penance.
(b) Work.
(c) Fellowship of the table.
(d) Showers and chores.

2. Bonhoeffer claimed that a Christian community is a ______ reality.
(a) Physical.
(b) Human.
(c) Psychic.
(d) Spiritual.

3. What did Bonhoeffer say is the source of human love? What can unfulfilled human love easily become?
(a) Desire for another; hatred.
(b) Desire for things; greed.
(c) Desire for another; loneliness.
(d) Desire for things; materialism.

4. What did Bonhoeffer say was the purpose of evening prayers and devotions?
(a) They were used to prove who was right and who was wrong in whatever discord had taken place that day.
(b) They were used to air grievances and build cases in ongoing disputes.
(c) They were used to discipline anyone who had broken the rules that day.
(d) They were used to heal any discord or right any wrong done during the day.

5. To Bonhoeffer, what do the times of day and night symbolize?
(a) Good and evil.
(b) Christ's effect on the world.
(c) Day and night.
(d) The Allies and the Axis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Bonhoeffer's first book?

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

3. 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?

4. In what year did Dietrich Bonhoeffer return to Germany?

5. Who schedules the entire day at the seminary?

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