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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 grace.
(b) A death sentence.
(c) A gift of God's mercy--he would have hated it in India.
(d) A mistake--he should have gone to India.

3. What did Bonhoeffer say in Chapter 4 that we must remember about other members of the community in which we live?
(a) They deserve criticism, scorn, and a swift kick in the rear.
(b) They are victims of their circumstances and upbringing, and need government help just like us.
(c) They are all better than us and we should consider ourselves lucky they put up with us.
(d) They need assistance, encouragement and forgiveness.

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

5. According to what Bonhoeffer says in Chapter 4, how do the brethren receive fellow sinners in the fellowship of Jesus Christ?
(a) By practicing grace.
(b) After they agree to the brethren's statement of faith and dress code.
(c) After they pass background checks.
(d) By forgiving sin.

6. Before Bonhoeffer accepted his position at the seminary, he was considering going to India. What was he going to do in India?
(a) Recruit Nazis.
(b) Convert to Hinduism.
(c) Study pacifism.
(d) Missionary work.

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

8. In the context of Chapter 5, what is making a mistake also known as?
(a) Missing the mark.
(b) Sin.
(c) Failure.
(d) Screwing up.

9. 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) Prayer.
(b) Intercession.
(c) Fasting.
(d) Meditation.

10. Besides being a complete action in itself, what did Bonhoeffer say that confession is a preparatory step for?
(a) Baptism.
(b) Holy Communion.
(c) Salvation.
(d) Evening devotions.

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

12. What did Bonhoeffer say is a possible downside to listening, serving, and bearing that the ministry of proclaiming can help correct?
(a) Becoming a doormat.
(b) Burnout.
(c) Not wanting to be critical of one's neighbor.
(d) Becoming overly critical of others.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reverse of the concept put forth in the previous question?

2. What did Bonhoeffer say that confession does to sin?

3. Bonhoeffer says that confessing sin to another is ____________.

4. Bonhoeffer says that listening to the Word of God is the beginning of:

5. According to Bonhoeffer, what has broken one's fellowship both with God and with one's brethren?

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