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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Kierkegaard describe what Christians call sin?
(a) Love.
(b) Fun.
(c) Aesthetic.
(d) Despair.

2. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 10 say the pseudonymous work aims at?
(a) Tells people the truth without fear of retaliation.
(b) Convinces people to convert.
(c) Captures Kierkegaard the man.
(d) Talks about the failures of Christianity.

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

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

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

6. When does Kierkegaard argue that action is only comprehensible?
(a) When faith guides our actions.
(b) When there is possibility.
(c) When Christ is present.
(d) When told to.

7. What does Kierkegaard say being a Christian requires?
(a) Follow Christ whatever the cost.
(b) Finding a place between offense and rejecting the possibility of offense.
(c) Follow the Bible and not the state church's interpretation of it.
(d) Follow the Church and its dogma the best you can.

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

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

10. What type of text does Kierkegaard routinely publish under his own name according to Robert Bretall in Chapter 10?
(a) Humoristic.
(b) Biblical.
(c) Economical.
(d) Political.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Freud's ideas does Kierkegaard prefigure in The Sickness Unto Death?

2. Who did Kierkegaard receive communion from on his death bed?

3. Who does Kierkegaard argue rules in the modern age?

4. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 11 say Kierkegaard rejects and critiques?

5. What does Kierkegaard realize in "Rest at the foot of the altar"?

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