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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 Psalter?
(a) Another name for the Book of Proverbs.
(b) The container in which the seminary's supply of salt was stored.
(c) The Book of Psalms arranged for devotional use.
(d) The seminary's hymnbook.

2. What did Bonhoeffer, in contrast, say is the source of spiritual love and what does it desire to do?
(a) Jesus Christ; serve others.
(b) Inner peace; find Nirvana.
(c) The universe; be in harmony with the universe.
(d) Jesus Christ; serve Him.

3. Bonhoeffer believed in the Christian doctrine of a triune God. What is the definition of this doctrine?
(a) One God, that takes on three different modes.
(b) Three persons in one God.
(c) One God, that has appeared in three different manifestations throughout time.
(d) Three separate Gods.

4. According to Bonhoeffer, what does the community rest in while it sleeps?
(a) Security and safety.
(b) The power of evil.
(c) Either the hands of God or the power of evil.
(d) The hands of God.

5. Who schedules the entire day at the seminary?
(a) Hitler.
(b) Jesus Christ.
(c) The seminarians.
(d) Bonhoeffer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bonhoeffer do just before going leaving Germany for England?

2. What does the noontime break remind the community members, according to Bonhoeffer?

3. What was the title of Bonhoeffer's doctoral thesis and dissertation?

4. Why did Bonhoeffer return to Germany?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 1, what source did Bonhoeffer use to establish how a community should live together? Why?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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