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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 told to.
(b) When Christ is present.
(c) When faith guides our actions.
(d) When there is possibility.

2. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 11 say Kierkegaard rejects and critiques?
(a) Faith.
(b) Organized churches.
(c) Many central Protestant ideas.
(d) Christ.

3. What does Kierkegaard realize in "Rest at the foot of the altar"?
(a) That he teaches without authority.
(b) Catholicism is better for the average man.
(c) He was wrong about Christ.
(d) Regina did not love him.

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

5. How does Kierkegaard characterize Hegel's thinking?
(a) Ridiculous.
(b) Limited.
(c) Faithless.
(d) Right.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is Concluding Unscientific Postscript published?

2. What does The Sickness Unto Death argue the self is?

3. What does Kierkegaard think of Bishop Mynster's sermons?

4. When does Bishop Mynster die?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Kierkegaard see truth as?

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

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

5. Why is Kierkegaard biased about the press?

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

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

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

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

10. What did Kierkegaard criticize about the sacraments?

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