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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. Which of these song titles is the title of an American Negro spiritual?
(a) Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.
(b) Silent Night.
(c) How Great Thou Art.
(d) Heaven Is A Place On Earth.

2. What does Bonhoeffer belief should NOT start the day?
(a) Hymns of the Church.
(b) Devotions of scripture reading.
(c) Prayer of the fellowship.
(d) Concern for the day's work.

3. What is the first book of the Bible?
(a) Psalms.
(b) Genesis.
(c) Apocalypse (Revelation).
(d) John.

4. After Life Together, Bonhoeffer publishes two additional books before which following event happens?
(a) Hitler dies.
(b) The seminary is closed.
(c) The government forbids him to write or publish.
(d) He is thrown into prison.

5. What was Bonhoeffer's claim about singing that is not directed towards God?
(a) It still glorifies God.
(b) It is singing to idols.
(c) It helps encourage other believers.
(d) There is nothing wrong with it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bonhoeffer intend Life Together to be?

2. Bonhoeffer firmly believed that a brotherhood is bound together by:

3. According to Bonhoeffer, what was the second element that defined a Christian fellowship?

4. Christians see Bonhoeffer as having died for his faith. What term is applied to this?

5. What is the Psalter?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Bonhoeffer's opinion, as expressed in Chapter 2, how do Christians discover the unity that can be found through a day's work?

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

4. What effect did Bonhoeffer believe that living in exile, with unbelievers, could have on a Christian's faith?

5. Does spiritual love desire immediacy or the nearness of other human beings, according to Bonhoeffer? Why or why not?

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

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

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

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

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

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