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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. In 1939, what does Dietrich Bonhoeffer commit himself to supporting?
(a) The Church and the Resistance movement.
(b) The Allies.
(c) His former seminarians.
(d) The Nazi Party.

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

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

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

5. To Bonhoeffer, what do the times of day and night symbolize?
(a) Day and night.
(b) The Allies and the Axis.
(c) Christ's effect on the world.
(d) Good and evil.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bonhoeffer state that the duty of a Christian is?

3. Bonhoeffer's writings boil down to which following Scriptural statement?

4. What Bonhoeffer's purpose in writing Chapter 1?

5. Bonhoeffer stated that "One can either believe or see, but faith has no need to see in order to ________. Seeing does not need to believe in order to see."

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the prison guards treat Bonhoeffer?

2. In Chapter 2, how does Bonhoeffer use the times of day and night as images to illustrate Christ's effect on the world?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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