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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. According to Bonhoeffer, what does silence enable?
(a) Concentration, relaxation, and the ability to study.
(b) Boredom, anxiety, and restlessness.
(c) Irritation, anger, and failure of the community to bond.
(d) The power of clarity, purity, and focus on the essentials.
2. What did Bonhoeffer say about the man who is in sin and who has yet to confess it?
(a) He should be pitied and felt sorry for.
(b) He should be envied and put on a pedestal.
(c) He should be scorned and gossiped about.
(d) He is alone and separated from the community.
3. According to Bonhoeffer, what has broken one's fellowship both with God and with one's brethren?
(a) Gossip.
(b) Anger.
(c) Laziness.
(d) Sin.
4. According to Bonhoeffer, what makes a person feel alone?
(a) An act of sin.
(b) Being in solitude for too long.
(c) Being in exile.
(d) Persecution for one's beliefs.
5. Bonhoeffer said that sin ________ confessed individually to every brother.
(a) Might need to be, depending on the sin committed,
(b) Ought to be.
(c) Does not need to be.
(d) Needs to be.
6. What did Bonhoeffer say that personal time for meditation, prayer, and intercession should be considered?
(a) An option.
(b) A privilege.
(c) A right.
(d) A burden.
7. What does Bonhoeffer believe that his call from a life in exile to his present life at the seminary is?
(a) A death sentence.
(b) A gift of God's mercy--he would have hated it in India.
(c) A gift of God's grace.
(d) A mistake--he should have gone to India.
8. What are the two primary things Bonhoeffer discusses in Chapter 5?
(a) Confession and communion.
(b) Salvation and baptism.
(c) Grace and mercy.
(d) Community and solitude.
9. Upon what does the ministry of authority depend?
(a) Intimidation.
(b) Brotherly service.
(c) Enforcing the laws.
(d) The seminary leader being well-qualified for the job.
10. Which Bible characters does Bonhoeffer present in Chapter 3 as examples of life alone?
(a) Jesus, Timothy, and Paul.
(b) Noah, Abraham, and Issac.
(c) Moses, David, and Elijah.
(d) Paul, Timothy, and John.
11. What did Bonhoeffer claim is a benefit of the ministry of helpfulness?
(a) It helps the brother be thankful for his career.
(b) It helps the brother understand how much need there is in the world.
(c) It helps the brother learn not to take himself and his career too seriously.
(d) It helps the brother understand how important he is.
12. What expression does Bonhoeffer use to describe the sinner moving forward to another level of community understanding?
(a) Breaking through.
(b) Promotion.
(c) Enlightenment.
(d) Advancement.
13. What did Bonhoeffer say offers divine help?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) Confession.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Intercession.
14. According to Bonhoeffer, what happens when one receives God's mercy?
(a) A desire to serve others.
(b) A desire to serve oneself.
(c) A desire to serve God.
(d) A desire to serve the community.
15. What does Bonhoeffer say about the law of Christ, which he believes is fulfilled in the cross?
(a) Christians must share in it just as they bear each other's burdens.
(b) The law of Christ has no relationship to bearing one another's burdens.
(c) It frees Christians from the need to support each other.
(d) Christians can never live up to it.
Short Answer Questions
1. What type of person did Bonhoeffer say one should seek out as a confessor?
2. According to Bonhoeffer, the cross destroys _______ at its root.
3. Finish the following concept Bonhoeffer puts forth in Chapter 3: Only when one is at ease with fellowship....
4. What was the second evidence, according to Bonhoeffer, that a person's time spent in meditation, prayer, and intercession had put him in contact with God?
5. The ministry that requires that one think highly of others and little of oneself to serve them is the ministry of:
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