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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 believe that experiencing loneliness could do for Christians?
(a) It could make them loners, unwilling to properly participate in church life.
(b) It enables them to recognize each other in the presence of Christ.
(c) It enables them to recognize the presence of Christ in each other.
(d) It could discourage them and cause them to give up their faith.

2. What is the title of Bonhoeffer's first book?
(a) Act and Being.
(b) Creation and Fall.
(c) Life Together.
(d) Discipleship.

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

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

5. What Bonhoeffer's purpose in writing Chapter 1?
(a) He draws upon examples and passages from the Bible to show how a community should live together.
(b) He draws upon examples from society to show how a community should live together.
(c) He draws upon examples and passages from the Bible to show how a seminary should be run.
(d) He draws upon examples from society to show why the Nazis should be overthrown.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is arrested along with Bonhoeffer in 1943?

2. What is the last book of the Bible?

3. How does Bonhoeffer believe Christians should pray together to God?

4. According to Bonhoeffer, what is the purpose of the fellowship that takes place when meals are shared at the table?

5. What does Bonhoeffer say is the sole and entire purpose of Christian community fellowship together?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Bonhoeffer say that a Christian community is different from any other form of human community?

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

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

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

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

6. How, according to Bonhoeffer's fellow prisoners, does his attitude consistently remain throughout his captivity, even as he becomes increasingly isolated?

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

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

9. How does Bonhoeffer describe visionaries?

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

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