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

2. What does Christ's contemporary accept Christ despite of?
(a) Church donations.
(b) Peer pressure.
(c) Overbearing dogma.
(d) It's radical costs.

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

4. What does Kierkegaard's work focus on?
(a) How to sever our link to the organized church.
(b) How to love Christ.
(c) How to be a better person.
(d) What it means to be a Christian in a Christian society.

5. What does Kierkegaard say being a Christian requires?
(a) Follow Christ whatever the cost.
(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) Finding a place between offense and rejecting the possibility of offense.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What novel does Robert Bretall in Chapter 9 say Kierkegaard reviewed after the publication of Concluding Unscientific Postscript?

3. Who is the criticism of Kierkegaard targeted at?

4. What does Chapter 8 say about Hegel and his followers?

5. What does Kierkegaard argue must be separated from society and reason?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard believe about modern Christianity?

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

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

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

5. What does Kierkegaard see truth as?

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

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

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

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

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

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