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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 think The Sickness Unto Death contains too much of?
(a) Long sentence.
(b) References to Christ.
(c) Humor.
(d) Discussion to effectively use rhetoric.

2. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 14 say Kierkegaard thinks of Training in Christianity?
(a) It is his favorite work.
(b) It is weak.
(c) It is too long.
(d) It does not go far enough.

3. What does The Sickness Unto Death define?
(a) The spirit and the self.
(b) Faith.
(c) The self.
(d) Love and hatred.

4. What does The Sickness Unto Death argue is contained within man?
(a) Christ.
(b) The infinite and the finite.
(c) Faith.
(d) The self.

5. What does Kierkegaard say being a Christian requires?
(a) Finding a place between offense and rejecting the possibility of offense.
(b) Follow the Bible and not the state church's interpretation of it.
(c) Follow the Church and its dogma the best you can.
(d) Follow Christ whatever the cost.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of text does Kierkegaard routinely publish under his own name according to Robert Bretall in Chapter 10?

3. What does Kierkegaard think of The Sickness Unto Death?

4. What does Kierkegaard focus on in Two Discourses?

5. Why does Kierkegaard argue people convert for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does man contain, according to Kierkegaard?

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

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

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

5. Why is Kierkegaard biased about the press?

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

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

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

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

10. What does Kierkegaard say Christianity offends?

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