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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 reject Christ.
(b) He will think that Christianity is stronger than ever.
(c) He will be disillusioned.
(d) He will convert to Catholicism.

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

3. Who was Bishop Mynster?
(a) Kierkegaard's editor.
(b) Denmark's head bishop.
(c) A rival writer.
(d) A friend fo the family.

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

5. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 17 say do not really fit together?
(a) Kierkegaard's life and the effects of his life.
(b) Kierkegaard's love of Regina and his attitude toward her.
(c) Church and the people.
(d) Kierkegaard's view on Christ and organized religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard argue Hegel's vision of the world of reason does to the idea of possibility?

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

3. Who does Kierkegaard argue is attracted by Christ and his doctrines?

4. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 17 argue Kierkegaard's The Attack Upon Christendom attacks?

5. What is the central concept of Training in Christianity?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does man contain, according to Kierkegaard?

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

3. What does Kierkegaard outline about the human heart in Chapter 10, Edifying Discourses?

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

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

6. How does Kierkegaard define spirit and self in Chapter 13, The Sickness Unto Death?

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

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

9. When was Chapter 12, The Point of View For My Work as an Author published?

10. What, according to Kierkegaard, can generate true knowledge of the validity of Christianity?

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