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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, The Sickness Unto Death.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When were the last of Kierkegaard aesthetic writings published according to Robert Bretall in Chapter 7?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1855.
(c) 1846.
(d) 1865.

2. What does Kierkegaard claim concerning man and the self in The Sickness Unto Death?
(a) Man and the self are insignificant.
(b) The self is Christ.
(c) Man is not yet a self.
(d) Man and Christ are the self.

3. Which of Freud's ideas does Kierkegaard prefigure in The Sickness Unto Death?
(a) Inconscience.
(b) Oedipus complex.
(c) Dream interpretation.
(d) Death instinct.

4. In Chapter 13, what does Robert Bretall argue 1848 is for Kierkegaard's writing?
(a) The height of his productivity.
(b) The year of his first commercial success.
(c) The year he starts doubting Christ.
(d) The year he realizes he still loves Regina.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard think The Sickness Unto Death contains too much of?

2. What does Kierkegaard use when he writes about the Knight of Faith with the Knight of Infinite Resignation?

3. What pseudonym does Kierkegaard use to write the second piece of Stages on Life's Way?

4. What does the first piece of Stages on Life's Way cover?

5. How does Kierkegaard describe what Christians call sin?

(see the answer key)

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