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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 does Bonhoeffer do after the Nazis forbid him to teach, write, or publish?

2. In Chapter 2, Bonhoeffer makes the following statement: "The Christian understands that the burden and labor of the day gives meaning to ______."

3. Which of these song titles is the title of an American Negro spiritual?

4. What did Bonhoeffer decide to study at the age of sixteen?

5. Bonhoeffer's ideas are not susceptible to rigorous rational examination and do not make sense without belief in _____.

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the prison guards treat Bonhoeffer?

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

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

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

5. What was the purpose of the monument to Bonhoeffer erected by pastors in Bavaria, Germany, ten years after his death?

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

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

8. How does Bonhoeffer describe visionaries?

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

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 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

Spirituals, as described in the Introduction, were songs that African Americans sang to each other during the dark days of their enslavement in pre-Civil War America. That Bonhoeffer became so fascinated by this genre of music, as his homeland slipped into servitude to the Nazis, is ironic. Explain the irony in the situation of Bonhoeffer's interest in slave spirituals during this time.

Essay Topic 3

Use the text to show how, in Chapter 3, Bonhoeffer resolved the apparent conflict he created between his statement that there is a Scriptural requirement that Christians live alone throughout the world and his discussion of the importance of community life.

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