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

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

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

4. What type of text does Kierkegaard routinely publish under his own name according to Robert Bretall in Chapter 10?
(a) Biblical.
(b) Humoristic.
(c) Economical.
(d) Political.

5. Who does Bishop Mynster's eulogy compare him to?
(a) The apostles.
(b) Christ.
(c) Kierkegaard.
(d) Hegel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Bishop Mynster influence?

2. Who does Kierkegaard argue rules in the modern age?

3. What other work does Kierkegaard produce during the period in which he writes The Journals?

4. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 10 say the pseudonymous work aims at?

5. What does Kierkegaard focus on in Two Discourses?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Kierkegaard criticize about the sacraments?

3. What does Kierkegaard see truth as?

4. Why didn't Kierkegaard write anything between 1851 to 1854 according to Chapter 16, The Journals?

5. What does Kierkegaard believe about Hegel's world of reason in Chapter 8, Concluding Unscientific Postscript?

6. What must individuality be separated from according to Chapter 8, Concluding Unscientific Postscript?

7. In Chapter 15, Two Discourses at the Communion of Fridays, what does Kierkegaard realize about himself?

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

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

10. What does Kierkegaard seek about the church at the end of The Attack Upon Christendom?

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