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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What religion does Robert Bretall in Chapter 11 say Kierkegaard follows?
(a) Protestantism.
(b) Agnosticism.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Buddhism.

2. Who does Kierkegaard argue a Christian must follow despite his being rejected by the world?
(a) Jesus.
(b) God.
(c) The church.
(d) His writings.

3. When does Kierkegaard argue that action is only comprehensible?
(a) When faith guides our actions.
(b) When told to.
(c) When there is possibility.
(d) When Christ is present.

4. What does The Sickness Unto Death define?
(a) The self.
(b) The spirit and the self.
(c) Faith.
(d) Love and hatred.

5. When is Concluding Unscientific Postscript published?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1854.
(d) 1846.

6. Who does Bishop Mynster's eulogy compare him to?
(a) Kierkegaard.
(b) Hegel.
(c) The apostles.
(d) Christ.

7. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 11 say about the views of Kierkegaard on Christianity the year before he dies?
(a) He will be disillusioned.
(b) He will reject Christ.
(c) He will think that Christianity is stronger than ever.
(d) He will convert to Catholicism.

8. What does Chapter 8 say about Hegel and his followers?
(a) They do not compromise.
(b) They refuse to debate.
(c) They are good men.
(d) They are savages in every way.

9. What other work does Kierkegaard produce during the period in which he writes The Journals?
(a) Nothing.
(b) 2 novels.
(c) 3 books.
(d) 5 pamphlets.

10. What does Kierkegaard think Bishop Mynster did not witness?
(a) A miracle.
(b) The truth.
(c) The light.
(d) The love of christ.

11. What does Kierkegaard argue Hegel's vision of the world of reason does to the idea of possibility?
(a) It follows it.
(b) It annihilates it.
(c) It completes it.
(d) It precedes it.

12. What does Kierkegaard argue people think about Christ teachings?
(a) They are offended by them.
(b) They are suspicious of them.
(c) They love them.
(d) They do not respect them.

13. What is The Journals the forbearer of?
(a) His conversion to Christianity.
(b) His rebuttal of Hegel's views.
(c) The Attack Upon Christendom.
(d) His faith crisis.

14. What does Kierkegaard say being a Christian requires?
(a) Follow the Bible and not the state church's interpretation of it.
(b) Follow Christ whatever the cost.
(c) Finding a place between offense and rejecting the possibility of offense.
(d) Follow the Church and its dogma the best you can.

15. What does Christ's contemporary accept Christ despite of?
(a) Church donations.
(b) Peer pressure.
(c) Overbearing dogma.
(d) It's radical costs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 10 say the pseudonymous work aims at?

2. What does Kierkegaard claim concerning man and the self in The Sickness Unto Death?

3. What is Kierkegaard running out of while writing The Journals?

4. Who was Bishop Mynster?

5. How does Kierkegaard define truth in Concluding Unscientific Postscript?

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