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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. Whose death does Kierkegaard await when writing The Journals?
(a) Bishop Mynster.
(b) His own.
(c) His father's.
(d) Regina's.

2. What does Works of Love focus on?
(a) Marriage and commitment.
(b) Christ and dogma.
(c) The human reponse to the divine initiative
(d) Love.

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

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

5. What does Kierkegaard claim concerning man and the self in The Sickness Unto Death?
(a) Man and Christ are the self.
(b) The self is Christ.
(c) Man is not yet a self.
(d) Man and the self are insignificant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard resonate with concerning spirituality?

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

3. In Chapter 13, what does Robert Bretall argue 1848 is for Kierkegaard's writing?

4. How does Kierkegaard describe what Christians call sin?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard seek about the church at the end of The Attack Upon Christendom?

2. What does it mean to be a Christian according to Kierkegaard?

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

4. What does Kierkegaard aim to do in Chapter 15, Two Discourses at the Communion on Fridays?

5. What does Kierkegaard believe about Hegel's world of reason in Chapter 8, Concluding Unscientific Postscript?

6. What does Kierkegaard find outrageous and upsetting?

7. What did Kierkegaard criticize about the sacraments?

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

9. What does man contain, according to Kierkegaard?

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

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