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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does The Sickness Unto Death argue the self is?
(a) The part of man that thinks.
(b) The part of man that does not love Christ.
(c) A relation that relates to itself.
(d) The whole of man.

2. What does Kierkegaard think of The Sickness Unto Death?
(a) It is strong.
(b) It is a good introductory work.
(c) It is weak.
(d) It is his final word on the subject.

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

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

5. How long did reason-based and systematized thinking dominate European philosophy?
(a) 200 years.
(b) 256 years.
(c) 325 years.
(d) 150 years.

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

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

8. Who does Kierkegaard argue rules in the modern age?
(a) Christ.
(b) Churches.
(c) The public.
(d) Government.

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

10. Who does Bishop Mynster's eulogy compare him to?
(a) Kierkegaard.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Christ.
(d) The apostles.

11. What does Kierkegaard argue antiquity was ruled by?
(a) Men.
(b) Leadership.
(c) The Pope.
(d) King.

12. How does Kierkegaard characterize Hegel's thinking?
(a) Faithless.
(b) Right.
(c) Limited.
(d) Ridiculous.

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

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

15. What does Kierkegaard argue is both a trap and an illusion?
(a) His books.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Organized religion.
(d) Faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Kierkegaard argue truth is found?

2. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 17 say do not really fit together?

3. What does Christ's contemporary accept Christ despite of?

4. What do Two Discourses and Works of Love have in common according to Robert Bretall in Chapter 15?

5. What does Kierkegaard argue cannot be improved or hurt by social organization?

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