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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Kierkegaard argue truth is found?
(a) In Christ.
(b) Inside oneself.
(c) In the relationship between the subject and his object.
(d) In Hegel's writings.

2. When does Bishop Mynster die?
(a) 1854.
(b) 1853.
(c) 1851.
(d) 1852.

3. How does Kierkegaard see the move towards equality as being?
(a) An illusion.
(b) As progress.
(c) A mistake.
(d) As regression.

4. Whose death does Kierkegaard await when writing The Journals?
(a) Bishop Mynster.
(b) His father's.
(c) Regina's.
(d) His own.

5. What does Kierkegaard argue Christendom is ruled by?
(a) Representation.
(b) Churches.
(c) Christ.
(d) The pope.

6. What are Kierkegaard's political views?
(a) Royalist.
(b) Communist.
(c) Imperialist.
(d) He is apolitical.

7. What does Kierkegaard think The Sickness Unto Death contains too much of?
(a) Discussion to effectively use rhetoric.
(b) Long sentence.
(c) Humor.
(d) References to Christ.

8. Who does The Sickness Unto Death argue the person is?
(a) Insignificant.
(b) The son of Christ.
(c) A spirit.
(d) A ghost.

9. How does Kierkegaard describe what Christians call sin?
(a) Despair.
(b) Aesthetic.
(c) Love.
(d) Fun.

10. What does Kierkegaard say of Two Discourses in his work?
(a) The last piece of the puzzle.
(b) A reflection of his movement from Either/Or to "rest at the foot of the altar."
(c) The start of a switch in writing style.
(d) The first part of a trilogy.

11. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 10 say Kierkegaard's work written under his own name aims at?
(a) Proposing to Regina.
(b) Persuasion.
(c) Contradicting Hegel.
(d) Criticizing the church.

12. What does Kierkegaard argue Hegel's vision of the world of reason does to the idea of possibility?
(a) It precedes it.
(b) It follows it.
(c) It annihilates it.
(d) It completes it.

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

14. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 11 say Kierkegaard rejects and critiques?
(a) Faith.
(b) Christ.
(c) Many central Protestant ideas.
(d) Organized churches.

15. Who does Kierkegaard argue rules in the modern age?
(a) Churches.
(b) The public.
(c) Christ.
(d) Government.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard argue man is not?

2. What does Christ's contemporary accept Christ despite of?

3. Who was Bishop Mynster?

4. What does The Sickness Unto Death argue the self is?

5. What does Kierkegaard claim concerning man and the self in The Sickness Unto Death?

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