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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. Before Bonhoeffer accepted his position at the seminary, he was considering going to India. What was he going to do in India?
(a) Missionary work.
(b) Convert to Hinduism.
(c) Study pacifism.
(d) Recruit Nazis.

2. What is the confidence, according to Bonhoeffer, with which one can offer intercession for another?
(a) Knowing oneself is being borne as well.
(b) Knowing that God hears prayer.
(c) Knowing that someone will always be there to listen.
(d) Knowing that God is merciful.

3. Bonhoeffer says that one truly becomes a brother only if:
(a) He contributes to the income of the community.
(b) He unselfishly helps others.
(c) He is willing to die for another.
(d) Another becomes a burden.

4. What metaphor did Bonhoeffer use to illustrate how a fellowship can be injured?
(a) A sick and infected physical body.
(b) Trying to carry something too heavy for you.
(c) The cycle of unemployment, poverty, and welfare.
(d) The telephone game.

5. What did Bonhoeffer say that preparation for the Lord's Supper is filled with?
(a) Fear, anxiety, stress, and enmity.
(b) Brotherly admonition, encouragement, prayers, and joy.
(c) Prayers and joy.
(d) Brotherly admonition and encouragement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the second evidence, according to Bonhoeffer, that a person's time spent in meditation, prayer, and intercession had put him in contact with God?

2. Which Bible characters does Bonhoeffer present in Chapter 3 as examples of life alone?

3. What did Bonhoeffer say that the blessings of successful struggle in solitude through the day alone and through strength of fellowship come from?

4. How did Bonhoeffer compare the ministry of listening to speaking?

5. What character trait is practiced through the ministry of helpfulness, according to Bonhoeffer?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what kind of brother did Bonhoeffer say may better understand another's confession of sin?

2. In Chapter 3, what did Bonhoeffer say was one of the unhealthy ways to view fellowship? Why?

3. What did Bonhoeffer say that confessing sin to a brother enables?

4. Why did Bonhoeffer call the rules and recommendations he established in Chapter 4 "ministries?"

5. While discussing the various ministries, Bonhoeffer states once again that all members of a community experience sin. What did he specifically say, while discussing the ministry of bearing, about bearing with another in sin?

6. In Chapter 5, what did Bonhoeffer say the confessing Christian gives up by forsaking his sin?

7. What did Bonhoeffer say should be the goal of personal meditation?

8. What, in Bonhoeffer's opinion, did one's learning to allow others to speak the Word of God (i.e. practice the ministry of proclaiming) allow a person to do?

9. Likewise, how does Bonhoeffer describe personal prayer in Chapter 3?

10. What did Bonhoeffer say was the result of resisting weakening by giving in to sin in the day spent alone?

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