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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, The Attack Upon Christendom.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Kierkegaard argue that action is only comprehensible?
(a) When Christ is present.
(b) When faith guides our actions.
(c) When there is possibility.
(d) When told to.

2. What is Kierkegaard feeling at the start of The Journals?
(a) Love.
(b) Contentment.
(c) Loss.
(d) Fear

3. What does Kierkegaard claim concerning man and the self in The Sickness Unto Death?
(a) The self is Christ.
(b) Man is not yet a self.
(c) Man and the self are insignificant.
(d) Man and Christ are the self.

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

5. What is Kierkegaard stunned by in The Journals?
(a) His own feeling.
(b) The power of God.
(c) The feelings of Chris.
(d) His own nothingness.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kierkegaard see the move towards equality as being?

2. What does Kierkegaard argue the truth is outside of?

3. What does Kierkegaard call faith?

4. Whose death does Kierkegaard await when writing The Journals?

5. What does Kierkegaard think Bishop Mynster did not witness?

(see the answer key)

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