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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, The Sickness Unto Death.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard think The Sickness Unto Death contains too much of?
(a) Discussion to effectively use rhetoric.
(b) Humor.
(c) Long sentence.
(d) References to Christ.

2. How long does it take Kierkegaard to write Fear and Trembling?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 5 months.
(c) 35 days.
(d) Less than 60 days.

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

4. What does Kierkegaard think of The Sickness Unto Death?
(a) It is weak.
(b) It is a good introductory work.
(c) It is strong.
(d) It is his final word on the subject.

5. How does Kierkegaard describe what Christians call sin?
(a) Fun.
(b) Love.
(c) Despair.
(d) Aesthetic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Kierkegaard write his pseudonymous work for according to Fear and Trembling?

2. What topic does Either/Or end with?

3. Outside of what does Fear and Trembling not make sense?

4. Which of Freud's ideas does Kierkegaard prefigure in The Sickness Unto Death?

5. What does Kierkegaard argue man is not?

(see the answer key)

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