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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 13 argue The Sickness Unto Death tries to understand?
(a) The love of Christ.
(b) The role of the church in the state.
(c) Faith.
(d) The corruption within each man.

4. What does Kierkegaard say of Two Discourses in his work?
(a) The start of a switch in writing style.
(b) The last piece of the puzzle.
(c) The first part of a trilogy.
(d) A reflection of his movement from Either/Or to "rest at the foot of the altar."

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

6. What type of text does Kierkegaard routinely publish under his own name according to Robert Bretall in Chapter 10?
(a) Humoristic.
(b) Biblical.
(c) Economical.
(d) Political.

7. What does Kierkegaard argue is required to be Christ's contemporary?
(a) Live in the first century.
(b) Believe in the resurrection of Christ.
(c) The change to offend others.
(d) Be a good Christian.

8. Who was Bishop Mynster?
(a) A rival writer.
(b) A friend fo the family.
(c) Kierkegaard's editor.
(d) Denmark's head bishop.

9. What does Kierkegaard argue people think about Christ teachings?
(a) They are offended by them.
(b) They love them.
(c) They are suspicious of them.
(d) They do not respect them.

10. Who wrote the preface of Two Discourses?
(a) Kierkegaard himself.
(b) Regina Olsen.
(c) Hegel.
(d) Bishop Hollaf.

11. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 14 say Kierkegaard thinks of Training in Christianity?
(a) It is his favorite work.
(b) It does not go far enough.
(c) It is weak.
(d) It is too long.

12. What does Kierkegaard believe the problem with modern Christianity is?
(a) It is unforgiving.
(b) It removes the possibility of offense despite how offensive it is.
(c) It is not in touch with reality.
(d) It relies on dogma too much.

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

14. What religion does Robert Bretall in Chapter 11 say Kierkegaard follows?
(a) Buddhism.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Agnosticism.
(d) Protestantism.

15. What period do The Journals cover?
(a) 1851 to 1856.
(b) 1856 to 1859.
(c) 1851 to 1854.
(d) 1845 to 1856.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard argue cannot be improved or hurt by social organization?

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

3. When does Bishop Mynster die?

4. How does Kierkegaard describe what Christians call sin?

5. What does Kierkegaard argue antiquity was ruled by?

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