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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 is the author arguing is more important than the content of Either/Or?
(a) The way the book was launched.
(b) Kierkegaard's footnotes.
(c) The title.
(d) Kierkegaard's analysis.

2. What does Kierkegaard argue is merely foreshadowed in Stages on Life's Way?
(a) Christ.
(b) Love.
(c) Hatred
(d) Religions.

3. What city does Kierkegaard live in according to Robert Bretall in Chapter 5?
(a) Munich.
(b) Berlin.
(c) London.
(d) Paris.

4. What does Kierkegaard say "is given its rights"?
(a) The religious realm.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Love.
(d) Christ.

5. What does the meditation in Fear and Trembling illustrate?
(a) Kierkegaard's love for Regina.
(b) Kierkegaard's regrets.
(c) Kierkegaard's love for mistery.
(d) Kierkegaard's happiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard give up on according to Robert Bretall Chapter 5?

2. Who's ideas does Kierkegaard oppose in Either/Or?

3. What does Kierkegaard use when he writes about the Knight of Faith with the Knight of Infinite Resignation?

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

5. What prevents the hero in Repetition from finding what he wants?

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