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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Ministry.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the seminary, what are the first sounds of the dawn?
(a) Snoring.
(b) Pots banging together and showers running.
(c) Roosters and alarm clocks.
(d) Hymns and the Word of God.

2. What did Bonhoeffer believe was special about Jesus Christ?
(a) He had special powers to protect Christians from the Nazis.
(b) He was God become man, thereby taking on human nature.
(c) He was God become man, but didn't take on human nature.
(d) There was nothing special about Jesus Christ in Bonhoeffer's eyes.

3. According to Bonhoeffer, what is the ministry of authority?
(a) The power to influence others.
(b) What the head bully does.
(c) The national government.
(d) The responsibilities of the seminary leader.

4. What, according to Bonhoeffer, is God's Word?
(a) The Old Testament only.
(b) The whole and entire Bible.
(c) Whatever parts of the Bible an individual believes and agrees with.
(d) Any spiritual text, from any religion.

5. In the ministry of bearing, what, according to Bonhoeffer, does a Christian fellowship do?
(a) Supports one another.
(b) Helps each other move.
(c) Gives each other directions.
(d) Puts up with each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Bonhoeffer, what does the whole life of a Christian consist of?

2. What Bonhoeffer's purpose in writing Chapter 1?

3. What does Bonhoeffer say pastors and congregants should do about the community they find themselves in?

4. According to what Bonhoeffer says in Chapter 4, how do the brethren receive fellow sinners in the fellowship of Jesus Christ?

5. What did Bonhoeffer believe that human egos did to human relationships, without Christ's mediating influence?

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