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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bonhoeffer say about the law of Christ, which he believes is fulfilled in the cross?
(a) Christians can never live up to it.
(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 must share in it just as they bear each other's burdens.

2. In the ministry of bearing, what, according to Bonhoeffer, does a Christian fellowship do?
(a) Supports one another.
(b) Puts up with each other.
(c) Gives each other directions.
(d) Helps each other move.

3. According to Bonhoeffer, Christ said in Scripture that a brother should receive Communion (also known as the Lord's Supper) only if:
(a) He has fasted the day before.
(b) He has washed his head, hands, and feet first.
(c) He is hungry.
(d) Reconciled to his brother.

4. What, according to Bonhoeffer's statements in Chapter 3, does silence for its own sake bring?
(a) Either calm and relaxation, or tiredness and boredom.
(b) Either despair and fear, or the false peace of self-enlightenment.
(c) Either despair and fear, or the false peace of self-deception.
(d) Either anxiety and anger, or the false peace of self-deception.

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

6. How many times each day does Bonhoeffer say a Christian in community should spend time alone in silence?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Never.
(d) One.

7. What level of importance does Bonhoeffer place on intercession?
(a) It's essential to salvation.
(b) It's essential to the survival of the Church.
(c) It's essential to one's relatives escaping purgatory.
(d) It's essential to the survival of Christian fellowship.

8. Bonhoeffer says that confessing sin to another is ____________.
(a) Humiliating.
(b) Enlightening.
(c) Fun.
(d) Embarrassing.

9. In Chapter 4, by what word does Bonhoeffer refer to the rules and recommendations by which he says members of a fellowship should behave?
(a) Ministries.
(b) Rules.
(c) Recommendations.
(d) Laws.

10. What did Bonhoeffer say that preparation for the Lord's Supper is filled with?
(a) Brotherly admonition and encouragement.
(b) Brotherly admonition, encouragement, prayers, and joy.
(c) Fear, anxiety, stress, and enmity.
(d) Prayers and joy.

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

12. 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?
(a) Intercession.
(b) Meditation.
(c) Fasting.
(d) Prayer.

13. According to Bonhoeffer, what has broken one's fellowship both with God and with one's brethren?
(a) Anger.
(b) Sin.
(c) Laziness.
(d) Gossip.

14. What is the apparent conflict that Chapter 3 raises?
(a) Obeying the law vs. resisting the Nazis.
(b) Making money vs. sharing everything one owns with others.
(c) Living alone vs. community life.
(d) Having private devotional time vs. having community devotional time.

15. What did Bonhoeffer say offers divine help?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Confession.
(d) Intercession.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far in advance of the Lord's Supper did Bonhoeffer say that the brethren should assemble together to beg forgiveness of each other?

2. According to Bonhoeffer, why did Christ become man?

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

4. Bonhoeffer said that sin ________ confessed individually to every brother.

5. According to Bonhoeffer, solitude and silence are __________ to the individual and to the community.

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