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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Bonhoeffer decide to study at the age of sixteen?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Theology.
(c) Medicine.
(d) History.

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 serving Communion.
(b) He is finishing a prayer in a service that he is conducting.
(c) He is reading his Bible.
(d) He is writing a book.

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

4. What is the Greek word for the type of love found in a human community, according to Bonhoeffer?
(a) Eros.
(b) Phileo.
(c) Agape.
(d) Kyrie.

5. In which German city did Bonhoeffer grow up?
(a) Nuremberg.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Finkenwalde.
(d) Munster.

6. What did Bonhoeffer believe that experiencing loneliness could do for Christians?
(a) It enables them to recognize the presence of Christ in each other.
(b) It enables them to recognize each other in the presence of Christ.
(c) It could make them loners, unwilling to properly participate in church life.
(d) It could discourage them and cause them to give up their faith.

7. At which U.S. school did Bonhoeffer study Niebuhr and fall in love with American Negro spirituals?
(a) Oral Roberts University.
(b) Princeton Seminary.
(c) Dallas Theological Seminary.
(d) Union Theological Seminary.

8. 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.

9. What, according to Bonhoeffer, is God's Word?
(a) The Old Testament only.
(b) The whole and entire Bible.
(c) Any spiritual text, from any religion.
(d) Whatever parts of the Bible an individual believes and agrees with.

10. According to Bonhoeffer, what does the community rest in while it sleeps?
(a) Security and safety.
(b) Either the hands of God or the power of evil.
(c) The power of evil.
(d) The hands of God.

11. What did Bonhoeffer believe that human egos did to human relationships, without Christ's mediating influence?
(a) Developed harmony and good will, and enabled peace and understanding.
(b) Incited conflict and strife and destroyed peace and understanding.
(c) Tended to drift from community to aloneness.
(d) The effect of the ego was neutral on the quality of the relationships.

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

13. According to Bonhoeffer, an activity within a Christian community that is not of Jesus Christ is based on what?
(a) Human self.
(b) Society.
(c) Others.
(d) The Holy Spirit.

14. Who became one of Bonhoeffer's teachers?
(a) Fritz Arnheim, a well-known historian.
(b) Alfred Einstein, a well-known physicist.
(c) Sigmund Freud, a noted psychologist.
(d) Karl Barth, a well-known theologian.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Christians see Bonhoeffer as having died for his faith. What term is applied to this?

2. Which of the following is a true statement about what Christians can expect regarding being able to spend time in person with other Christians?

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

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

5. Ten years after Bonhoeffer's death, what event takes place in commemoration of his sacrifice?

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