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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard believe the problem with modern Christianity is?

2. What does Kierkegaard argue is required to be Christ's contemporary?

3. What type of text does Kierkegaard routinely publish under his own name according to Robert Bretall in Chapter 10?

4. What does The Sickness Unto Death define?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard find outrageous and upsetting?

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

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

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

5. What does Kierkegaard seek about the church at the end of The Attack Upon Christendom?

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

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

8. What did Kierkegaard criticize about the sacraments?

9. What does Kierkegaard say about the individual?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Kierkegaard's view of Socrates and examine similarities between Socrates and Kierkegaard. Use the text to support your discussion.

Essay Topic 2

Writing under the pseudonym, Climacus, Kierkegaard describes faith in the language of the absurd in the sense of the improbable. Discuss Kierkegaard's use of the term with that of Albert Camus's understanding. Use the text to support your discussion and examine the paradox created.

Essay Topic 3

Kierkegaard frequently wrote under pseudonyms. Discuss why Kierkegaard used pseudonyms to present different points of views and philosophical exposition. Use the text to support your discussion.

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