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

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

3. What does Kierkegaard think of Bishop Mynster's sermons?
(a) They are too long.
(b) They are good.
(c) They are outrageous.
(d) They are disconnected from reality.

4. What does The Sickness Unto Death define?
(a) The self.
(b) Faith.
(c) The spirit and the self.
(d) Love and hatred.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Kierkegaard argue truth is found?

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

3. What does Kierkegaard say of the practice of taking sacraments?

4. What do Two Discourses and Works of Love have in common according to Robert Bretall in Chapter 15?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard believe about modern Christianity?

2. What does Kierkegaard find outrageous and upsetting?

3. What does Kierkegaard claim happens when we relate to our true selves?

4. What does Kierkegaard say about the individual?

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

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

7. Who died in 1854 in Chapter 17, The Attack Upon Christendom, and how was this person remembered?

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

9. What does Kierkegaard aim to do in Chapter 15, Two Discourses at the Communion on Fridays?

10. What does Kierkegaard see truth as?

(see the answer keys)

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