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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay 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 convert to Catholicism.
(b) He will be disillusioned.
(c) He will reject Christ.
(d) He will think that Christianity is stronger than ever.

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

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

4. What are Kierkegaard's political views?
(a) Imperialist.
(b) He is apolitical.
(c) Communist.
(d) Royalist.

5. In Chapter 13, what does Robert Bretall argue 1848 is for Kierkegaard's writing?
(a) The year he starts doubting Christ.
(b) The height of his productivity.
(c) The year he realizes he still loves Regina.
(d) The year of his first commercial success.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Robert Bretall in Chapter 11, what does Kierkegaard see the truth as?

3. What does Kierkegaard focus on in Two Discourses?

4. What does Kierkegaard argue Christendom is ruled by?

5. What novel does Robert Bretall in Chapter 9 say Kierkegaard reviewed after the publication of Concluding Unscientific Postscript?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 15, Two Discourses at the Communion of Fridays, what does Kierkegaard realize about himself?

2. If you are a Christian, what are you not doing according to Kierkegaard in Chapter 14, Training in Christianity?

3. What does Kierkegaard say Christianity offends?

4. How does Kierkegaard divide history in Chapter 9, The Present Age?

5. What does Kierkegaard critique in Chapter 11, Works of Love?

6. What does Kierkegaard express his hatred of in Chapter 15, The Journals?

7. What does the existence of man contradict, according to Kierkegaard?

8. What does Kierkegaard believe about modern Christianity?

9. What does Kierkegaard claim happens when we relate to our true selves?

10. Why didn't Kierkegaard write anything between 1851 to 1854 according to Chapter 16, The Journals?

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