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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Bishop Mynster influence?
(a) Regina.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Kierkegaard's father.
(d) Kierkegaard himself.

2. What does Kierkegaard argue a Christian needs to be?
(a) An Apostle.
(b) A prophet.
(c) A follower.
(d) A leader.

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

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

5. What other work does Kierkegaard produce during the period in which he writes The Journals?
(a) 3 books.
(b) 2 novels.
(c) 5 pamphlets.
(d) Nothing.

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

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

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

9. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 11 say about the views of Kierkegaard on Christianity the year before he dies?
(a) He will be disillusioned.
(b) He will reject Christ.
(c) He will convert to Catholicism.
(d) He will think that Christianity is stronger than ever.

10. When does Bishop Mynster die?
(a) 1851.
(b) 1854.
(c) 1852.
(d) 1853.

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

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

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

14. What does Works of Love focus on?
(a) Marriage and commitment.
(b) The human reponse to the divine initiative
(c) Christ and dogma.
(d) Love.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard think of The Sickness Unto Death?

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

3. What is The Journals the forbearer of?

4. What does Kierkegaard argue men are in the modern age?

5. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 14 say Kierkegaard thinks of Training in Christianity?

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