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

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

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

4. According to Robert Bretall in Chapter 11, what does Kierkegaard see the truth as?
(a) A noble goal.
(b) An illusion.
(c) What moves toward unity or the complete.
(d) The word of Christ.

5. What does Kierkegaard argue man is not?
(a) Good.
(b) Bad.
(c) What he is in principle.
(d) Faith.

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

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

8. What does Kierkegaard use the book review for?
(a) Discuss his own ideas.
(b) To promote his next book.
(c) Talk about Hegel's ideas.
(d) Apologize to Regina.

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

10. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 11 say Kierkegaard rejects and critiques?
(a) Faith.
(b) Organized churches.
(c) Many central Protestant ideas.
(d) Christ.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does The Sickness Unto Death argue the person is?

3. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 17 argue Kierkegaard's The Attack Upon Christendom attacks?

4. What is Kierkegaard running out of while writing The Journals?

5. What does Kierkegaard argue must be separated from society and reason?

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