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

2. According to Bonhoeffer, what does a Christian seek from Jesus Christ?
(a) Material goods, money, and friends.
(b) Forgiveness so they can keep on sinning; a free ride to heaven.
(c) Redemption, righteousness, innocence, and blessedness.
(d) Wealth, health, and prosperity.

3. Which of the following is a true statement about what Christians can expect regarding being able to spend time in person with other Christians?
(a) According to the Bible, Christians will always have other Christians to live with.
(b) According to the Bible, Christians will never have other Christians to live with.
(c) According to the Bible, Christians will sometimes have other Christians to live with and will sometimes be alone.
(d) According to the Bible, Christians rarely receive the privilege of living together with other Christians.

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

5. According to Bonhoeffer, the Christian community must learn to thank God daily for _____ things before learning to appreciate great things.
(a) Any.
(b) All.
(c) Every.
(d) Small.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Bonhoeffer return to Germany?

2. What is the premise of Life Together?

3. How does Bonhoeffer say that Christians should receive each other?

4. What does Bonhoeffer belief should NOT start the day?

5. At which U.S. school did Bonhoeffer study Niebuhr and fall in love with American Negro spirituals?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Bonhoeffer describe visionaries?

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

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