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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 is the central concept of Training in Christianity?
(a) Love Christ without question.
(b) How to mimic the apostles.
(c) Being "contemporaneous with Christ."
(d) Follow the church dogma to the letter.

2. What does Kierkegaard argue is required to be Christ's contemporary?
(a) Believe in the resurrection of Christ.
(b) The change to offend others.
(c) Be a good Christian.
(d) Live in the first century.

3. What does Kierkegaard aim to reduce with Two Discourses and Works of Love?
(a) The gap between the orthodox and the modern.
(b) The gap between men and women.
(c) The gap between Catholics and Protestants.
(d) The gap between the church and the people.

4. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 10 say the pseudonymous work aims at?
(a) Talks about the failures of Christianity.
(b) Convinces people to convert.
(c) Captures Kierkegaard the man.
(d) Tells people the truth without fear of retaliation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard argue is both a trap and an illusion?

2. What is The Journals the forbearer of?

3. What does Kierkegaard claim concerning man and the self in The Sickness Unto Death?

4. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 17 say do not really fit together?

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 critique in Chapter 11, Works of Love?

2. What, according to Kierkegaard, can generate true knowledge of the validity of Christianity?

3. What does Kierkegaard believe about modern Christianity?

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

5. What does Kierkegaard say Christianity offends?

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

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

8. When was Chapter 12, The Point of View For My Work as an Author published?

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

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

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