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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Bonhoeffer, what was the first element that defined a Christian fellowship?
(a) Christians need others because of Jesus Christ; they realize their own resources are not adequate to get them through life.
(b) Christians need others in order to survive the Nazis; they realize their own resources are not adequate to get them through the war.
(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.

2. How did Bonhoeffer compare the ministry of listening to speaking?
(a) Speaking is a greater service to another than listening.
(b) Listening is a greater service to another than speaking.
(c) Speaking and listening are equally important services to others.
(d) Neither speaking nor listening are important.

3. What is the overarching theme of Life Together?
(a) An autobiography of Bonhoeffer's life.
(b) A guide to the daily spiritual devotions of the seminary's community life.
(c) An illustration of spiritual life in an illegal, secret Protestant seminary within the historical context of Nazi Germany, 1935-1945.
(d) The Christian practices, beliefs, and principles by which Bonhoeffer leads his seminarians in daily life together.

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

5. What did Bonhoeffer say causes injury to a fellowship?
(a) Not engaging in intercession for each other.
(b) Not working hard enough.
(c) Gossip.
(d) Every sin in thought, word, or deed.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the day's work was completed, what happened at Bonhoeffer's seminary?

2. After the Gestapo closes down Bonhoeffer's seminary and forbids him to teach, what does he do?

3. What does Bonhoeffer say about the habits of self-justifying and judging others?

4. What does Bonhoeffer say is the sole and entire purpose of Christian community fellowship together?

5. Based on what Bonhoeffer says in Chapter 4, which of the elements of personal devotional time that he described in Chapter 3 tie in with the ministry of bearing?

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