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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. Who did Kierkegaard receive communion from on his death bed?
(a) A priest.
(b) A layman.
(c) A bishop.
(d) Nobody.

2. When is Concluding Unscientific Postscript published?
(a) 1854.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1846.

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

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

5. What does Kierkegaard say of Two Discourses in his work?
(a) The start of a switch in writing style.
(b) A reflection of his movement from Either/Or to "rest at the foot of the altar."
(c) The first part of a trilogy.
(d) The last piece of the puzzle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 10 say the pseudonymous work aims at?

3. Who is still famous for maintaining the doctrine of Justification by Faith against the Catholic view of merit and indulgence?

4. What does Chapter 8 say about Hegel and his followers?

5. What is Kierkegaard running out of while writing The Journals?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard say about the individual?

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

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

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

5. Who died in 1854 in Chapter 17, The Attack Upon Christendom, and how was this person remembered?

6. What does Kierkegaard say Christianity offends?

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

8. What does man contain, according to Kierkegaard?

9. What does Kierkegaard believe about modern Christianity?

10. What must individuality be separated from according to Chapter 8, Concluding Unscientific Postscript?

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