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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to Bonhoeffer, enables God's redeeming help to another?
(a) Practicing the Golden Rule.
(b) Humbly renouncing one's own abilities.
(c) Treating others the way you want them to treat you.
(d) God only helps those who help themselves.

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

3. In Chapter 5, what did Bonhoeffer say the certainty of forgiveness requires?
(a) Getting confirmation from the pastor.
(b) Confession of specific sins.
(c) Begging for it from the person offended.
(d) Confession of generic sins.

4. What does Bonhoeffer believe that his call from a life in exile to his present life at the seminary is?
(a) A gift of God's mercy--he would have hated it in India.
(b) A mistake--he should have gone to India.
(c) A gift of God's grace.
(d) A death sentence.

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

6. According to what Bonhoeffer says, a ______ individual wants to be his own law.
(a) Weak.
(b) Strong.
(c) Self-sufficient.
(d) Selfish.

7. According to Bonhoeffer, what happens when one receives God's mercy?
(a) A desire to serve oneself.
(b) A desire to serve God.
(c) A desire to serve the community.
(d) A desire to serve others.

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

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) Recommendations.
(b) Ministries.
(c) Laws.
(d) Rules.

10. According to Bonhoeffer, solitude and silence are __________ to the individual and to the community.
(a) Optional.
(b) Mandatory.
(c) Not essential.
(d) Essential.

11. What type of brother did Bonhoeffer say is most likely to relate to the spiritual facts of sin and forgiveness?
(a) One who is super-spiritual and never makes mistakes.
(b) One who is very inconsistent and sins frequently.
(c) One who is grounded in life's practical realities.
(d) One who is relatively new to the community.

12. If another's sin is considered to be worse to one's own, Bonhoeffer says that service to the other is not _________.
(a) Blessed by God.
(b) Worthwhile.
(c) Genuine.
(d) Necessary.

13. What did Bonhoeffer say that a community fellowship needs to survive and thrive?
(a) Lots of money and resources.
(b) Both strong and weak members.
(c) A good organizational structure and business plan.
(d) Only strong members.

14. What does Bonhoeffer say that both intercession and personal prayer should be related to?
(a) Current events.
(b) The tasks at hand for the day.
(c) The scriptural passage used in meditation.
(d) The person for whom one is interceding.

15. In the context of Chapter 5, what did Bonhoeffer say that Jesus' crucifixion and death on the cross destroys?
(a) Faith and hope.
(b) Hatred and prejudice.
(c) Human pride.
(d) Sin and death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What character trait is practiced through the ministry of helpfulness, according to Bonhoeffer?

2. What does Bonhoeffer say that praying for intercession enables the members of a community to see each other as?

3. How did Bonhoeffer say that one may re-establish communication with the fellowship?

4. When did Bonhoeffer say that brotherly confession is most effective?

5. Before Bonhoeffer accepted his position at the seminary, he was considering going to India. What was he going to do in India?

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