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

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

3. According to Bonhoeffer, a daily reading of ______ is not the same as reading of the Scripture as a whole.
(a) Short verses.
(b) The newspaper.
(c) Hitler's latest propaganda.
(d) The Psalter.

4. After Life Together, Bonhoeffer publishes two additional books before which following event happens?
(a) The seminary is closed.
(b) Hitler dies.
(c) He is thrown into prison.
(d) The government forbids him to write or publish.

5. 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; greed.
(c) Desire for another; hatred.
(d) Desire for things; materialism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Bonhoeffer return to Germany?

2. In which German city did Bonhoeffer grow up?

3. What was Bonhoeffer doing while living abroad from Germany?

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?

5. According to Bonhoeffer, in a human community, what are weaker individuals influenced by?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the book of Genesis describe?

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

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

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

6. How does Bonhoeffer describe visionaries?

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

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

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

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

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