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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 is both a trap and an illusion?
(a) Pleasure.
(b) His books.
(c) Faith.
(d) Organized religion.

2. What does Kierkegaard argue cannot be improved or hurt by social organization?
(a) Churches.
(b) An individual's value.
(c) Government.
(d) The law.

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

4. What does Kierkegaard think of The Sickness Unto Death?
(a) It is weak.
(b) It is strong.
(c) It is a good introductory work.
(d) It is his final word on the subject.

5. Whose death does Kierkegaard await when writing The Journals?
(a) Bishop Mynster.
(b) Regina's.
(c) His own.
(d) His father's.

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

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

8. What does Kierkegaard argue Hegel's vision of the world of reason does to the idea of possibility?
(a) It follows it.
(b) It precedes it.
(c) It completes it.
(d) It annihilates it.

9. What does Kierkegaard say of the practice of taking sacraments?
(a) It has become rote.
(b) It has become meaningless.
(c) It should not be done.
(d) It is the purest expression of Christ.

10. Who did Kierkegaard receive communion from on his death bed?
(a) Nobody.
(b) A bishop.
(c) A layman.
(d) A priest.

11. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 10 say Kierkegaard's work written under his own name aims at?
(a) Persuasion.
(b) Contradicting Hegel.
(c) Proposing to Regina.
(d) Criticizing the church.

12. Who does Kierkegaard argue a Christian must follow despite his being rejected by the world?
(a) Jesus.
(b) God.
(c) The church.
(d) His writings.

13. What does Kierkegaard think Bishop Mynster did not witness?
(a) The love of christ.
(b) A miracle.
(c) The light.
(d) The truth.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 10 say the pseudonymous work aims at?

2. What does Kierkegaard claim concerning man and the self in The Sickness Unto Death?

3. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 11 say about the views of Kierkegaard on Christianity the year before he dies?

4. Who was Bishop Mynster?

5. What does Kierkegaard argue a Christian needs to be?

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