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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, according to Bonhoeffer, should be a primary concern in personal intercession?
(a) Those in the fellowship who have asked for assistance.
(b) World events and crises.
(c) Those being persecuted by the Nazis.
(d) One's own personal needs.

2. What does Bonhoeffer put forth as proof that there is a need for service to others?
(a) The different social classes in society.
(b) The existence of poverty.
(c) The existence of hunger.
(d) The initial reaction when one brother meets another.

3. Based on what Bonhoeffer says in Chapter 4, which of the elements of personal devotional time that he described in Chapter 3 tie in with the ministry of bearing?
(a) Meditation.
(b) Intercession.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Fasting.

4. Bonhoeffer says that listening to the Word of God is the beginning of:
(a) Understanding.
(b) Hope.
(c) Faith.
(d) Love.

5. 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?
(a) He became a more tolerant person.
(b) His faith increased over time.
(c) He became able to work miracles.
(d) He became very narrow minded.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of communication does Bonhoeffer say that prayer during meditation is between a Christian and Jesus Christ?

2. What does Bonhoeffer say that praying for intercession enables the members of a community to see each other as?

3. According to Bonhoeffer, whose responsibility is it to pray for intercession?

4. Does Bonhoeffer say that an individual is lonely while meditating?

5. Bonhoeffer says that one truly becomes a brother only if:

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Bonhoeffer claim that regular, scheduled time for personal meditation, prayer, and intercession would demonstrate for a community member?

2. What did Bonhoeffer say in Chapter 4 about a person who cannot listen to another patiently and at length?

3. Regarding the ministry of bearing, how did Bonhoeffer tie it to what he called the "fellowship of the cross?"

4. Why did Bonhoeffer place such importance upon silence during times of solitude?

5. In presenting the ministry of holding one's tongue, what did Bonhoeffer say was completely removed if evil thoughts were not permitted to be said aloud, and if community members were absolutely banned from saying anything in secret about one another?

6. In Chapter 5, what did Bonhoeffer say that each man thinks he has a right to?

7. 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?

8. As Chapter 3 came to a close, what did Bonhoeffer say about the dimension of solitude and exile he described in community life?

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

10. What is the scripture that Bonhoeffer utilized in Chapter 3 to emphasize, one last time, the importance to him of time spent alone?

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