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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the central concept of Training in Christianity?
(a) Follow the church dogma to the letter.
(b) Love Christ without question.
(c) How to mimic the apostles.
(d) Being "contemporaneous with Christ."

2. What does Kierkegaard's work focus on?
(a) How to sever our link to the organized church.
(b) What it means to be a Christian in a Christian society.
(c) How to be a better person.
(d) How to love Christ.

3. 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 the church and the people.
(d) The gap between men and women.

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

5. What does Kierkegaard argue people think about Christ teachings?
(a) They love them.
(b) They are suspicious of them.
(c) They are offended by them.
(d) They do not respect them.

6. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 17 argue Kierkegaard's The Attack Upon Christendom attacks?
(a) Danish State Church.
(b) The whole of Christianity.
(c) Kierkegaard's past view on Christianity.
(d) Bishop Mynster.

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

8. What does Kierkegaard focus on in Two Discourses?
(a) The word of Christ.
(b) Personal interpretation of the Bible.
(c) Churches and dogma.
(d) The divine initiative.

9. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 10 say the pseudonymous work aims at?
(a) Tells people the truth without fear of retaliation.
(b) Captures Kierkegaard the man.
(c) Convinces people to convert.
(d) Talks about the failures of Christianity.

10. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 14 say Kierkegaard thinks of Training in Christianity?
(a) It is too long.
(b) It is his favorite work.
(c) It does not go far enough.
(d) It is weak.

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

12. What does Kierkegaard argue the present is ruled by?
(a) Inequality.
(b) Corporation.
(c) Presidents.
(d) Equality.

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

14. What does Kierkegaard argue a Christian needs to be?
(a) A follower.
(b) An Apostle.
(c) A leader.
(d) A prophet.

15. What does Kierkegaard argue is both a trap and an illusion?
(a) Faith.
(b) Organized religion.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) His books.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Robert Bretall in Chapter 11, what does Kierkegaard see the truth as?

2. Who was Bishop Mynster?

3. What does The Sickness Unto Death define?

4. Who did Bishop Mynster influence?

5. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 11 say about the views of Kierkegaard on Christianity the year before he dies?

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