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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard think Bishop Mynster did not witness?
(a) The light.
(b) The love of christ.
(c) A miracle.
(d) The truth.

2. What does Kierkegaard say being a Christian requires?
(a) Follow Christ whatever the cost.
(b) Follow the Bible and not the state church's interpretation of it.
(c) Follow the Church and its dogma the best you can.
(d) Finding a place between offense and rejecting the possibility of offense.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard realize in "Rest at the foot of the altar"?

2. What does Kierkegaard focus on in Two Discourses?

3. When is Concluding Unscientific Postscript published?

4. How do the common people see Kierkegaard according to Chapter 9?

5. What does Hegel think truth is according to Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard believe about modern Christianity?

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

3. What does Kierkegaard say about the individual?

4. What does Kierkegaard outline about the human heart in Chapter 10, Edifying Discourses?

5. What did Kierkegaard criticize about the sacraments?

6. What does Kierkegaard declare of truth?

7. How does Kierkegaard divide history in Chapter 9, The Present Age?

8. When was Chapter 12, The Point of View For My Work as an Author published?

9. Why is Kierkegaard biased about the press?

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

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