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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard say of the realms discussed in Stages on Life's Way?
(a) They are all divided in 3.
(b) They can all be mastered.
(c) They all need Christ to make sense.
(d) They are all concrete forms of existance.

2. What does Hegel think truth is according to Chapter 8?
(a) That men need to know Christ.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A whole.
(d) Christ's love.

3. What country's philosophy does the philosopher who Kierkegaard opposes in Either/Or most influence?
(a) Germany.
(b) Denmark.
(c) Italy.
(d) France.

4. What does Kierkegaard fight against according to Robert Bretall in Chapter 5?
(a) Regina.
(b) The Denmark State Church.
(c) Himself.
(d) Subconscious aspects of the self.

5. What does Kierkegaard do before leaving for Berlin at the star of Either/Or?
(a) Goes to church.
(b) Breaks off his engagement with Regina Olsen.
(c) Buries his dog, Maximus.
(d) Writes a book.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kierkegaard define truth in Concluding Unscientific Postscript?

2. How long did reason-based and systematized thinking dominate European philosophy?

3. Where does the idea of Repetition derive from?

4. What does the meditation in Fear and Trembling illustrate?

5. What do many intellectuals agree on in the 19th century concerning distinctions?

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