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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 Robert Bretall think of Repetition?
(a) It is a humorist's piece.
(b) It is Kierkegaard's best work of literature.
(c) It is full of holes in logic.
(d) It is one of the worse works by Kierkegaard.

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

3. Who is Regina Olsen?
(a) Kierkegaard's sister.
(b) Kierkegaard's agent.
(c) Kierkegaard's editor.
(d) Kierkegaard's fiancee.

4. What does Kierkegaard say truth is discovered in?
(a) The heart.
(b) One self.
(c) Dialectics.
(d) Faith.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard say forms Repetition?

2. What do many Catholics argue Kierkegaard would have done had he lived?

3. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 10 say Kierkegaard's work written under his own name aims at?

4. What does The Sickness Unto Death argue is contained within man?

5. What is Kierkegaard feeling at the start of The Journals?

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