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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Confession and Communion.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Ten years after Bonhoeffer's death, what event takes place in commemoration of his sacrifice?
(a) The Pope canonizes him.
(b) Bavarian pastors erect a monument in his honor.
(c) He is awarded a posthumous Nobel prize.
(d) His seminary re-opens in Finkenwalde.

3. Bonhoeffer noted two evidences that one's personal time spent in prayer, meditation and intercession had put that person in real contact with the strengthening and purifying power of God. One of the reasons is listed below; indicate it:
(a) What the person chooses to do for recreational time.
(b) The environment of the person's workaday world.
(c) The nature of the person's relationships throughout the day.
(d) What the person wears.

4. Bonhoeffer believed in the Christian doctrine of a triune God. What is the definition of this doctrine?
(a) Three separate Gods.
(b) One God, that has appeared in three different manifestations throughout time.
(c) One God, that takes on three different modes.
(d) Three persons in one God.

5. At the seminary, what are the first sounds of the dawn?
(a) Pots banging together and showers running.
(b) Snoring.
(c) Roosters and alarm clocks.
(d) Hymns and the Word of God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bonhoeffer believe that the reading of Scripture helps teach?

2. What did Bonhoeffer say orders and disciplines the seminarians' entire day?

3. What, according to Bonhoeffer's statements in Chapter 3, does silence for its own sake bring?

4. In Chapter 5, when did Bonhoeffer say a brother needed some way to restore himself to community?

5. Bonhoeffer says that confessing sin to another is ____________.

(see the answer key)

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