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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what does Bonhoeffer say is the best time of day for personal prayer, meditation and intercession?
(a) Early in the morning.
(b) Whenever it can be fit in.
(c) At midday.
(d) Late at night.

2. According to Bonhoeffer, why did Christ become man?
(a) So all mankind can see that God is love.
(b) Bonhoeffer didn't believe that Christ became man.
(c) So all mankind can believe in him as Brother.
(d) So all mankind can believe in him.

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

4. Does Bonhoeffer say that an individual is lonely while meditating?
(a) Yes, meditation is lonely.
(b) No, meditation is not lonely.
(c) It depends on the individual.
(d) Sometimes, meditation can be lonely.

5. According to Bonhoeffer, what is the purpose and goal of confession?
(a) Establishing a pecking order in the fellowship.
(b) Getting good dirt on your brothers.
(c) Forgiveness of sin alone.
(d) Both penance and forgiveness of sin.

6. What character trait is practiced through the ministry of helpfulness, according to Bonhoeffer?
(a) Humility.
(b) Mercifulness.
(c) Patience.
(d) Meekness.

7. What did Bonhoeffer say that the confession of sin enables?
(a) Experience in swallowing one's pride.
(b) Conversion to a new beginning in Christ.
(c) Gossip and teasing.
(d) Continuance in the sin.

8. What did Bonhoeffer say that Jesus Christ gives his followers the authority to do in his name?
(a) To hear the confession of sins and forgive sinners.
(b) To determine whether a government is good or evil and overthrow it if necessary.
(c) To hear the confession of sins and save people.
(d) To establish a world-wide theocracy.

9. According to Bonhoeffer, what does the whole life of a Christian consist of?
(a) Prayer, meditation, and intercession.
(b) Ministries, work, and sharing one's faith.
(c) Devotions, work, and prayer.
(d) Bearing or spiritually carrying the cross.

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

11. In Chapter 5, when did Bonhoeffer say a brother needed some way to restore himself to community?
(a) When he strikes it rich and the others become jealous.
(b) When he returns from work.
(c) When he makes a mistake.
(d) When he returns from an extended period of solitude and silence.

12. How far in advance of the Lord's Supper did Bonhoeffer say that the brethren should assemble together to beg forgiveness of each other?
(a) Two days before.
(b) The day before.
(c) An hour before.
(d) The week before.

13. What is the confidence, according to Bonhoeffer, with which one can offer intercession for another?
(a) Knowing that God hears prayer.
(b) Knowing that God is merciful.
(c) Knowing oneself is being borne as well.
(d) Knowing that someone will always be there to listen.

14. 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) The nature of the person's relationships throughout the day.
(b) The environment of the person's workaday world.
(c) What the person wears.
(d) What the person chooses to do for recreational time.

15. What, according to Bonhoeffer, should be a primary concern in personal intercession?
(a) World events and crises.
(b) One's own personal needs.
(c) Those in the fellowship who have asked for assistance.
(d) Those being persecuted by the Nazis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the apparent conflict that Chapter 3 raises?

2. What expression does Bonhoeffer use to describe the sinner moving forward to another level of community understanding?

3. Not saying bad things is the ministry of:

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

5. Bonhoeffer says that one truly becomes a brother only if:

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