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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. Who does Bishop Mynster's eulogy compare him to?
(a) Hegel.
(b) The apostles.
(c) Christ.
(d) Kierkegaard.

2. What is Kierkegaard running out of while writing The Journals?
(a) Support in the church.
(b) Time.
(c) Funds.
(d) Inspiration.

3. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 17 say do not really fit together?
(a) Kierkegaard's view on Christ and organized religion.
(b) Church and the people.
(c) Kierkegaard's love of Regina and his attitude toward her.
(d) Kierkegaard's life and the effects of his life.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Kierkegaard's political views?

2. What does Kierkegaard say the Danish State Church is?

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

4. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 17 argue Kierkegaard's The Attack Upon Christendom attacks?

5. What does Kierkegaard say of the defense of the Christian ideal?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard declare of truth?

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

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

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

5. Why didn't Kierkegaard write anything between 1851 to 1854 according to Chapter 16, The Journals?

6. What does Kierkegaard see truth as?

7. What does Kierkegaard find outrageous and upsetting?

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

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

10. What does Kierkegaard say about the individual?

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