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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 Robert Bretall in Chapter 13 argue The Sickness Unto Death tries to understand?
(a) The role of the church in the state.
(b) The corruption within each man.
(c) The love of Christ.
(d) Faith.

2. What does Kierkegaard say "is given its rights"?
(a) Love.
(b) Christ.
(c) Hatred.
(d) The religious realm.

3. What does the meditation in Fear and Trembling illustrate?
(a) Kierkegaard's love for mistery.
(b) Kierkegaard's love for Regina.
(c) Kierkegaard's happiness.
(d) Kierkegaard's regrets.

4. Which of Freud's ideas does Kierkegaard prefigure in The Sickness Unto Death?
(a) Dream interpretation.
(b) Oedipus complex.
(c) Inconscience.
(d) Death instinct.

5. What does Kierkegaard argue man is not?
(a) What he is in principle.
(b) Bad.
(c) Faith.
(d) Good.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 13, what does Robert Bretall argue 1848 is for Kierkegaard's writing?

2. What does Kierkegaard argue is merely foreshadowed in Stages on Life's Way?

3. What does Kierkegaard think The Sickness Unto Death contains too much of?

4. What does The Sickness Unto Death define?

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

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