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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. What is the overarching theme of Life Together?

2. What is the last book of the Bible?

3. How did Bonhoeffer view Christian fellowship?

4. According to Bonhoeffer, what was the third element that defines a Christian fellowship?

5. Why did Bonhoeffer return to Germany?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Bonhoeffer become involved in plans to overthrow Hitler?

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

6. When Bonhoeffer returns to Berlin after his term at Union Theological Seminary, what does he do?

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

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

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

10. According to Bonhoeffer, what is the effect of faith on logic?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 2, Bonhoeffer explains that a person should become completely absorbed in his/her work. Write an essay comparing either your favorite and your least favorite subject or your favorite and your least favorite chore. Explain why you like the favorite and dislike the favorite, then think about and explain how you might be able to apply Bonhoeffer's principle (back your statements up with the text) about becoming absorbed in your work so as to make the disliked subject or chore less of a burden.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Bonhoeffer's belief that Christians should bring peace with his actions in joining a plot to overthrow Hitler and in joining the Resistance movement against the Nazis. Were Bonhoeffer's actions in contradiction with his belief that Christians should bring peace? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Bonhoeffer's lessons in Chapter 3 about intercession are germane to recent calls for all of America to get more involved in helping each other; community service is a form of intercession. Think of a community service organization, preferably something you have participated in yourself, and use Bonhoeffer's comments on intercession in Chapter 3 to show how what they do is a form of intercession.

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