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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) Faith.
(b) The role of the church in the state.
(c) The love of Christ.
(d) The corruption within each man.

2. What does Kierkegaard think Fear and Trembling will do to the reader?
(a) Make him convert.
(b) Amuse him.
(c) Terrify him.
(d) Make him think.

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

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

5. What does Kierkegaard use when he writes about the Knight of Faith with the Knight of Infinite Resignation?
(a) Fear.
(b) Impossible situations.
(c) Paradoxes.
(d) Humor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard say "is given its rights"?

2. Who does Kierkegaard think is the most likely person to understand the ideas in Fear and Trembling?

3. Who does The Sickness Unto Death argue the person is?

4. What pseudonym does Kierkegaard use to write the second piece of Stages on Life's Way?

5. What does Kierkegaard meditate on in Fear and Trembling?

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