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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 does the noontime break remind the community members, according to Bonhoeffer?
(a) Their work does not provide daily bread; they need to be grateful to Bonhoeffer for sheltering them.
(b) Their work provides their daily bread; they need to thank God that they have jobs.
(c) Their work provides their daily bread; they need to work even harder.
(d) Their work does not provide daily bread; it is God's gift of grace.

2. Which of these song titles is the title of an American Negro spiritual?
(a) How Great Thou Art.
(b) Silent Night.
(c) Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.
(d) Heaven Is A Place On Earth.

3. What does Bonhoeffer say is the sole and entire purpose of Christian community fellowship together?
(a) Encouraging one another.
(b) Making lots of money.
(c) Surviving the Nazi threat.
(d) The Word of God.

4. How does the day begin at the seminary?
(a) With breakfast.
(b) With calisthenics.
(c) With air-raid drills.
(d) With devotions.

5. What did Bonhoeffer say is the source of human love? What can unfulfilled human love easily become?
(a) Desire for another; loneliness.
(b) Desire for another; hatred.
(c) Desire for things; greed.
(d) Desire for things; materialism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What German city did Bonhoeffer return to?

2. What did Bonhoeffer, in contrast, say is the source of spiritual love and what does it desire to do?

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

4. To Bonhoeffer, what do the times of day and night symbolize?

5. What did Bonhoeffer believe that human egos did to human relationships, without Christ's mediating influence?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was special about the seminary at Finkenwalde?

2. According to Bonhoeffer, what is the effect of faith on logic?

3. Why does Bonhoeffer say that a Christian community is different from any other form of human community?

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

5. What does Bonhoeffer learn in childhood about Christianity that shapes his theology as an adult?

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

7. Why does Bonhoeffer become involved in plans to overthrow Hitler?

8. When Bonhoeffer returns to Berlin after his term at Union Theological Seminary, what does he do?

9. How, according to Bonhoeffer's fellow prisoners, does his attitude consistently remain throughout his captivity, even as he becomes increasingly isolated?

10. In Chapter 2, why is Bonhoeffer so insistent that singing should be done in unison?

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