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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When does Bishop Mynster die?
(a) 1851.
(b) 1853.
(c) 1852.
(d) 1854.
2. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 11 say Kierkegaard rejects and critiques?
(a) Many central Protestant ideas.
(b) Organized churches.
(c) Faith.
(d) Christ.
3. What is The Journals the forbearer of?
(a) His rebuttal of Hegel's views.
(b) The Attack Upon Christendom.
(c) His faith crisis.
(d) His conversion to Christianity.
4. What do many Catholics argue Kierkegaard would have done had he lived?
(a) Write another book.
(b) Become a priest.
(c) Convert to Catholicism.
(d) Reject Christ.
5. What does Kierkegaard claim concerning man and the self in The Sickness Unto Death?
(a) Man and the self are insignificant.
(b) Man is not yet a self.
(c) The self is Christ.
(d) Man and Christ are the self.
6. What does Kierkegaard realize in "Rest at the foot of the altar"?
(a) That he teaches without authority.
(b) Catholicism is better for the average man.
(c) He was wrong about Christ.
(d) Regina did not love him.
7. What does Kierkegaard say of Two Discourses in his work?
(a) The first part of a trilogy.
(b) A reflection of his movement from Either/Or to "rest at the foot of the altar."
(c) The start of a switch in writing style.
(d) The last piece of the puzzle.
8. What does Kierkegaard argue is required to be Christ's contemporary?
(a) Live in the first century.
(b) Be a good Christian.
(c) Believe in the resurrection of Christ.
(d) The change to offend others.
9. What does Kierkegaard say of the defense of the Christian ideal?
(a) It is unknown the the layman.
(b) We could do better.
(c) We all appall it.
(d) We all fall short of it.
10. What does Kierkegaard argue cannot be improved or hurt by social organization?
(a) Government.
(b) Churches.
(c) The law.
(d) An individual's value.
11. Who does Kierkegaard argue a Christian must follow despite his being rejected by the world?
(a) His writings.
(b) The church.
(c) God.
(d) Jesus.
12. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 14 say Kierkegaard thinks of Training in Christianity?
(a) It does not go far enough.
(b) It is his favorite work.
(c) It is weak.
(d) It is too long.
13. What does Kierkegaard say being a Christian requires?
(a) Follow Christ whatever the cost.
(b) Follow the Bible and not the state church's interpretation of it.
(c) Finding a place between offense and rejecting the possibility of offense.
(d) Follow the Church and its dogma the best you can.
14. What does Kierkegaard resonate with concerning spirituality?
(a) Catholic monastic life.
(b) Denmark State Church.
(c) Hegel's views.
(d) Papal teachings.
15. What does Kierkegaard believe the problem with modern Christianity is?
(a) It removes the possibility of offense despite how offensive it is.
(b) It is unforgiving.
(c) It relies on dogma too much.
(d) It is not in touch with reality.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Kierkegaard define truth in Concluding Unscientific Postscript?
2. What type of text does Kierkegaard routinely publish under his own name according to Robert Bretall in Chapter 10?
3. What does Kierkegaard argue is both a trap and an illusion?
4. Who does Kierkegaard argue is attracted by Christ and his doctrines?
5. What does Kierkegaard say of the practice of taking sacraments?
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