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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the overarching theme of Life Together?
(a) An autobiography of Bonhoeffer's life.
(b) A guide to the daily spiritual devotions of the seminary's community life.
(c) An illustration of spiritual life in an illegal, secret Protestant seminary within the historical context of Nazi Germany, 1935-1945.
(d) The Christian practices, beliefs, and principles by which Bonhoeffer leads his seminarians in daily life together.

2. Bonhoeffer stated that "One can either believe or see, but faith has no need to see in order to ________. Seeing does not need to believe in order to see."
(a) Trust.
(b) Know.
(c) Hope.
(d) Believe.

3. What does Bonhoeffer consider the voice of the Church to be?
(a) Instrumental music.
(b) Singing as one (that is, in unison).
(c) Singing in four-part harmony.
(d) Reading Scripture aloud.

4. What does Bonhoeffer do after the Nazis forbid him to teach, write, or publish?
(a) He continues to teach, write, and publish in defiance of the Nazi ban, traveling throughout Germany to do so.
(b) He complies with the order and travels throughout Germany encouraging other Christians to do the same.
(c) He flees the country and takes a pastorate in England.
(d) He flees to the United States and takes classes at Union Theological Seminary.

5. What did Bonhoeffer believe that the reading of Scripture helps teach?
(a) Literacy and self-discipline.
(b) Doctrine and religious asceticism.
(c) Man's history primarily for the sake of salvation.
(d) Love for our fellow man and an appreciation for all religions.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the seminary, what happens after morning devotions are over?

2. Which of these song titles is the title of an American Negro spiritual?

3. In which concentration camp was Bonhoeffer executed, on April 9, 1945?

4. Who became one of Bonhoeffer's teachers?

5. On April 8, 1945, when Bonhoeffer is taken to death row to be hanged the following day, what is he doing when he is taken from his cell?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the three kinds of fellowship at table that Bonhoeffer says, in Chapter 2, are mentioned in the Bible?

2. What effect did Bonhoeffer believe that living in exile, with unbelievers, could have on a Christian's faith?

3. What, according to Bonhoeffer, is a Christian's source of guilt or innocence?

4. What was the purpose of the monument to Bonhoeffer erected by pastors in Bavaria, Germany, ten years after his death?

5. Where are Bonhoeffer and his family held from 1943 to October 1944?

6. In Chapter 1, what did Bonhoeffer say about Christians extending mercy and forgiveness to one another?

7. According to Bonhoeffer, what do the books of the Bible between Genesis and Apocalypse describe?

8. According to Bonhoeffer, what is the best way for a Christian to accomplish his work? Why?

9. What did Bonhoeffer say that human desire for community involves?

10. What was special about the seminary at Finkenwalde?

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