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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Bonhoeffer's daily reading/listening recommendation for devotions?

3. What does the noontime break remind the community members, according to Bonhoeffer?

4. In what year did Dietrich Bonhoeffer return to Germany?

5. In which German city did Bonhoeffer grow up?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What, according to Bonhoeffer, is a Christian's source of guilt or innocence?

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

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

5. What did Bonhoeffer say that human desire for community involves?

6. According to Bonhoeffer, what is the best way for a Christian to accomplish his work? Why?

7. Where are Bonhoeffer and his family held from 1943 to October 1944?

8. How do the prison guards treat Bonhoeffer?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 5, Bonhoeffer states that the darkness one feels while in sin poisons and isolates a sinner's heart and soul from his brethren. Explain what this means and provide examples, from society, your own life, and the text.

Essay Topic 2

Perhaps the cornerstone of the ministries Bonhoeffer discussed in Chapter 4 was that of holding one's tongue. James, one of Jesus' disciples, described the tongue and the bad things we can say with it as able to set the entire world on fire. It is so easy, and even fun, to repeat bad things we hear and say bad things we think; however, Bonhoeffer's comments on not doing so hold a great deal of wisdom. Use the text to demonstrate Bonhoeffer's reasons why a person should never speak evil thoughts and why he absolutely forbade his seminarians to say ANYTHING secretly about each other. Then, compare and contrast this rule by which Bonhoeffer governed his seminary with the typical high school student's attitude towards and behavior when it comes to holding one's tongue, not saying bad things, and not saying things secretly about others.

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 2, Bonhoeffer spends a great deal of time using the times of day and night to illustrate Christ's effect on the world.

1) Using the text, explain and demonstrate the various ways day and night are used to illustrate Christ's effect on the world.

2) Day and night are often used as metaphors. Provide another example of what day and night are commonly used to symbolize.

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