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

2. What, according to Bonhoeffer, is God's Word?
(a) Any spiritual text, from any religion.
(b) The Old Testament only.
(c) The whole and entire Bible.
(d) Whatever parts of the Bible an individual believes and agrees with.

3. What did Bonhoeffer say orders and disciplines the seminarians' entire day?
(a) Morning prayer.
(b) Bible readings.
(c) Daily work.
(d) Fellowship of the table.

4. 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?
(a) He is finishing a prayer in a service that he is conducting.
(b) He is serving Communion.
(c) He is writing a book.
(d) He is reading his Bible.

5. According to Bonhoeffer, what was the third element that defines a Christian fellowship?
(a) Christian fellowships always end in strife and failure because they involve selfish, fallen humans.
(b) Christians were chosen by God to be Christians from eternity (predestination).
(c) Christian fellowships are transitory and temporary.
(d) Christians were not chosen by God to be Christians from eternity (free will).

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bonhoeffer consider the voice of the Church to be?

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

3. According to Bonhoeffer, an activity within a Christian community that is not of Jesus Christ is based on what?

4. According to Bonhoeffer, the Christian community must learn to thank God daily for _____ things before learning to appreciate great things.

5. According to Bonhoeffer, what does a Christian seek from Jesus Christ?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. According to Bonhoeffer, as an adult Christian reads the Bible daily, what should happen?

3. How did the common morning devotions at the seminary begin, according to what we learned in Chapter 2?

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

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

6. What did Bonhoeffer say about Christian brotherhood that is perceived, or sensed? Why?

7. What does the book of Genesis describe?

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

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

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

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