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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is Kierkegaard running out of while writing The Journals?
(a) Funds.
(b) Support in the church.
(c) Inspiration.
(d) Time.

7. How does Kierkegaard see the move towards equality as being?
(a) As progress.
(b) As regression.
(c) A mistake.
(d) An illusion.

8. What does Chapter 8 say about Hegel and his followers?
(a) They refuse to debate.
(b) They do not compromise.
(c) They are savages in every way.
(d) They are good men.

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

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

11. What does Kierkegaard argue is required to be Christ's contemporary?
(a) Believe in the resurrection of Christ.
(b) Be a good Christian.
(c) Live in the first century.
(d) The change to offend others.

12. What does Kierkegaard argue is the heart of the public?
(a) Gambling.
(b) The law.
(c) Faith.
(d) The press.

13. What does Kierkegaard argue must be separated from society and reason?
(a) Individuality.
(b) Church.
(c) Christ.
(d) Men.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard resonate with concerning spirituality?

2. What does The Sickness Unto Death define?

3. What period do The Journals cover?

4. What does Kierkegaard argue antiquity was ruled by?

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

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