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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard argue would negate him?
(a) To stop writing.
(b) To be included in a whole.
(c) To agree with Hegel.
(d) To be loved by Christ.

2. What does Kierkegaard focus on in Two Discourses?
(a) Churches and dogma.
(b) The word of Christ.
(c) The divine initiative.
(d) Personal interpretation of the Bible.

3. What does Kierkegaard realize in "Rest at the foot of the altar"?
(a) Regina did not love him.
(b) That he teaches without authority.
(c) Catholicism is better for the average man.
(d) He was wrong about Christ.

4. Why does Kierkegaard argue people convert for?
(a) Fear.
(b) The benefits of belief.
(c) To commune with Christ.
(d) Peer pressure.

5. What does Kierkegaard aim to reduce with Two Discourses and Works of Love?
(a) The gap between Catholics and Protestants.
(b) The gap between the orthodox and the modern.
(c) The gap between the church and the people.
(d) The gap between men and women.

6. Who is still famous for maintaining the doctrine of Justification by Faith against the Catholic view of merit and indulgence?
(a) The Anglican Church.
(b) Martin Luther.
(c) The Pope.
(d) The head of the Denmark State Church.

7. What is Kierkegaard running out of while writing The Journals?
(a) Support in the church.
(b) Funds.
(c) Inspiration.
(d) Time.

8. What does The Sickness Unto Death argue is contained within man?
(a) The self.
(b) Christ.
(c) Faith.
(d) The infinite and the finite.

9. How does Kierkegaard define truth in Concluding Unscientific Postscript?
(a) Irrelevant.
(b) Immaterial.
(c) Objective.
(d) Subjective.

10. What does Kierkegaard argue the present is ruled by?
(a) Presidents.
(b) Corporation.
(c) Equality.
(d) Inequality.

11. What does Kierkegaard think The Sickness Unto Death contains too much of?
(a) Humor.
(b) Discussion to effectively use rhetoric.
(c) Long sentence.
(d) References to Christ.

12. What is the central concept of Training in Christianity?
(a) How to mimic the apostles.
(b) Love Christ without question.
(c) Follow the church dogma to the letter.
(d) Being "contemporaneous with Christ."

13. What does Kierkegaard think of Bishop Mynster's sermons?
(a) They are too long.
(b) They are good.
(c) They are outrageous.
(d) They are disconnected from reality.

14. Who is the criticism of Kierkegaard targeted at?
(a) Himself.
(b) The whole Christian world.
(c) The Denmark State Church.
(d) Bishop Mynster.

15. Who does The Sickness Unto Death argue the person is?
(a) A spirit.
(b) The son of Christ.
(c) Insignificant.
(d) A ghost.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Robert Bretall in Chapter 11, what does Kierkegaard see the truth as?

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

3. Who does Bishop Mynster's eulogy compare him to?

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

5. What other work does Kierkegaard produce during the period in which he writes The Journals?

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