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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Ministry.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) A sense of personal accomplishment.
(c) The Word of God.
(d) Receiving a paycheck.

2. What is the title of Bonhoeffer's first book?
(a) Act and Being.
(b) Creation and Fall.
(c) Discipleship.
(d) Life Together.

3. What does Bonhoeffer believe that his call from a life in exile to his present life at the seminary is?
(a) A gift of God's grace.
(b) A mistake--he should have gone to India.
(c) A death sentence.
(d) A gift of God's mercy--he would have hated it in India.

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 flees to the United States and takes classes at Union Theological Seminary.
(d) He complies with the order and travels throughout Germany encouraging other Christians to do the same.

5. What is the confidence, according to Bonhoeffer, with which one can offer intercession for another?
(a) Knowing that someone will always be there to listen.
(b) Knowing that God hears prayer.
(c) Knowing that God is merciful.
(d) Knowing oneself is being borne as well.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bonhoeffer put forth as proof that there is a need for service to others?

2. What did Bonhoeffer say that a community fellowship needs to survive and thrive?

3. According to Bonhoeffer, in a human community, what are weaker individuals influenced by?

4. Who is arrested along with Bonhoeffer in 1943?

5. What does Bonhoeffer say is the origination point of spiritual love?

(see the answer key)

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