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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. What is the main theme of Fear and Trembling?
(a) Commitment.
(b) Love.
(c) Fear.
(d) The encounter between the individual and the universe.

2. What does Kierkegaard argue is merely foreshadowed in Stages on Life's Way?
(a) Religions.
(b) Hatred
(c) Love.
(d) Christ.

3. What does the first piece of Stages on Life's Way cover?
(a) Love and aesthetic.
(b) The role of Bishops.
(c) Trust in the state Church.
(d) Love in Christ.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard say must stop being the ultimate goal and motivation for life in Stages of Life's Way?

2. How many realms does Stages on Life's Way discuss?

3. What does Kierkegaard think of The Sickness Unto Death?

4. Who does The Sickness Unto Death argue the person is?

5. What does Kierkegaard say "is given its rights"?

(see the answer key)

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