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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard say of the defense of the Christian ideal?
(a) We could do better.
(b) We all appall it.
(c) It is unknown the the layman.
(d) We all fall short of it.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Christ's contemporary accept Christ despite of?
(a) It's radical costs.
(b) Peer pressure.
(c) Overbearing dogma.
(d) Church donations.

8. What does The Sickness Unto Death define?
(a) Love and hatred.
(b) The spirit and the self.
(c) The self.
(d) Faith.

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

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

11. What does Kierkegaard argue Christendom is ruled by?
(a) The pope.
(b) Christ.
(c) Representation.
(d) Churches.

12. What does Hegel think truth is according to Chapter 8?
(a) A whole.
(b) Christ's love.
(c) That men need to know Christ.
(d) Nothing.

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

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

15. What is the title of the conclusion of Concluding Unscientific Postscript?
(a) The Journals.
(b) Seducer's Diary.
(c) How to become a Christian.
(d) How to become a Protestant.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Kierkegaard argue is both a trap and an illusion?

3. What is The Journals the forbearer of?

4. What does Kierkegaard say the Danish State Church is?

5. What does Kierkegaard argue man is not?

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