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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 Bonhoeffer belief should NOT start the day?
(a) Devotions of scripture reading.
(b) Prayer of the fellowship.
(c) Concern for the day's work.
(d) Hymns of the Church.

2. What does Bonhoeffer call work?
(a) The "it."
(b) Life's ultimate purpose.
(c) The "Thou."
(d) A necessary evil.

3. The term "Word of God" can be applied to which two elements of Christianity?
(a) The Bible; Jesus Christ.
(b) Jesus Christ; Christians.
(c) The Bible; the Church.
(d) Christians; the Church.

4. According to Bonhoeffer, what is the purpose of the fellowship that takes place when meals are shared at the table?
(a) It is a chance to win the favor of Bonhoeffer by volunteering to do extra work around the seminary.
(b) It is a chance to gorge oneself and establish one's position in the seminary.
(c) It is an occasion to get nourishment and complain about how hard life is.
(d) It is an occasion to rejoice and celebrate the working day.

5. What did Bonhoeffer believe that human egos did to human relationships, without Christ's mediating influence?
(a) Incited conflict and strife and destroyed peace and understanding.
(b) Developed harmony and good will, and enabled peace and understanding.
(c) The effect of the ego was neutral on the quality of the relationships.
(d) Tended to drift from community to aloneness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the overarching theme of Life Together?

3. Bonhoeffer's ideas are not susceptible to rigorous rational examination and do not make sense without belief in _____.

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

5. Bonhoeffer claimed that a Christian community is a ______ reality.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Bonhoeffer move to England after his 1933 radio lecture that was critical of the German people's support of Hitler?

3. Does spiritual love desire immediacy or the nearness of other human beings, according to Bonhoeffer? Why or why not?

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

5. What does the book of Apocalypse (also known as Revelation) describe?

6. In Bonhoeffer's opinion, as expressed in Chapter 2, how do Christians discover the unity that can be found through a day's work?

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

8. What was special about the seminary at Finkenwalde?

9. Shortly before he received the call to return to Germany and lead the seminary at Finkenwalde, what was Bonhoeffer making plans to do?

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

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