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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 Kierkegaard say of the defense of the Christian ideal?
(a) We all fall short of it.
(b) We all appall it.
(c) We could do better.
(d) It is unknown the the layman.

2. What does Kierkegaard argue cannot be improved or hurt by social organization?
(a) Government.
(b) The law.
(c) An individual's value.
(d) Churches.

3. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 17 argue Kierkegaard's The Attack Upon Christendom attacks?
(a) The whole of Christianity.
(b) Danish State Church.
(c) Kierkegaard's past view on Christianity.
(d) Bishop Mynster.

4. What does Kierkegaard resonate with concerning spirituality?
(a) Denmark State Church.
(b) Hegel's views.
(c) Catholic monastic life.
(d) Papal teachings.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Kierkegaard argue a Christian must follow despite his being rejected by the world?

2. What does Kierkegaard say of the practice of taking sacraments?

3. What does Kierkegaard think Bishop Mynster did not witness?

4. How does Kierkegaard characterize Hegel's thinking?

5. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 10 say Kierkegaard's work written under his own name aims at?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What did Kierkegaard criticize about the sacraments?

7. What does Kierkegaard say Christianity offends?

8. What does Kierkegaard say about the individual?

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

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

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