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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. When does Kierkegaard argue that action is only comprehensible?
(a) When there is possibility.
(b) When told to.
(c) When Christ is present.
(d) When faith guides our actions.

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

3. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 10 say Kierkegaard's work written under his own name aims at?
(a) Contradicting Hegel.
(b) Proposing to Regina.
(c) Criticizing the church.
(d) Persuasion.

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

5. What do many Catholics argue Kierkegaard would have done had he lived?
(a) Write another book.
(b) Convert to Catholicism.
(c) Reject Christ.
(d) Become a priest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the criticism of Kierkegaard targeted at?

2. What does Christ's contemporary accept Christ despite of?

3. What does Hegel think truth is according to Chapter 8?

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

5. How long did reason-based and systematized thinking dominate European philosophy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What hazard does Kierkegaard expose in Chapter 9, The Present Age?

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

3. What does man contain, according to Kierkegaard?

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

5. What does Kierkegaard say about the individual?

6. What does Kierkegaard declare of truth?

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

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

9. What does Kierkegaard believe about modern Christianity?

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

(see the answer keys)

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