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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14, Training in Christianity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard's work focus on?
(a) How to be a better person.
(b) How to love Christ.
(c) How to sever our link to the organized church.
(d) What it means to be a Christian in a Christian society.

2. What does Kierkegaard say truth is constituted of?
(a) Love.
(b) Parts that may initially seem at odds.
(c) Faith and events.
(d) The word of Christ.

3. Where in Either/Or are the edifying discourses published?
(a) Chapter 2.
(b) Chapter 1.
(c) Chapter 5.
(d) Chapter 3.

4. In Chapter 13, what does Robert Bretall argue 1848 is for Kierkegaard's writing?
(a) The year of his first commercial success.
(b) The year he starts doubting Christ.
(c) The year he realizes he still loves Regina.
(d) The height of his productivity.

5. According to Robert Bretall in Chapter 11, what does Kierkegaard see the truth as?
(a) The word of Christ.
(b) What moves toward unity or the complete.
(c) A noble goal.
(d) An illusion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name does Kierkegaard use to publish the Two Edifying Discourses?

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

3. What does Kierkegaard say must stop being the ultimate goal and motivation for life in Stages of Life's Way?

4. What is Kierkegaard stunned by in The Journals?

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

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