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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Day Alone.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the apparent conflict that Chapter 3 raises?
(a) Having private devotional time vs. having community devotional time.
(b) Living alone vs. community life.
(c) Obeying the law vs. resisting the Nazis.
(d) Making money vs. sharing everything one owns with others.

2. Who is arrested along with Bonhoeffer in 1943?
(a) His wife and children.
(b) His mother and father.
(c) His sister and brother-in-law.
(d) His sister and brother.

3. According to Bonhoeffer's statements, what does meditation promise as a result of seeking God?
(a) Salvation.
(b) Happiness.
(c) World peace.
(d) Oneness with the universe.

4. What is the overarching theme of Life Together?
(a) An illustration of spiritual life in an illegal, secret Protestant seminary within the historical context of Nazi Germany, 1935-1945.
(b) A guide to the daily spiritual devotions of the seminary's community life.
(c) An autobiography of Bonhoeffer's life.
(d) The Christian practices, beliefs, and principles by which Bonhoeffer leads his seminarians in daily life together.

5. What type of communication does Bonhoeffer say that prayer during meditation is between a Christian and Jesus Christ?
(a) Two-way.
(b) One-way.
(c) Personal and private.
(d) Public.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bonhoeffer believe Christians should pray together to God?

2. How many times each day does Bonhoeffer say a Christian in community should spend time alone in silence?

3. According to Bonhoeffer, how are Christ's followers gathered together as the worldwide Body of Christ while on Earth?

4. How does Bonhoeffer say that Christians should receive each other?

5. The term "Word of God" can be applied to which two elements of Christianity?

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