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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 Kierkegaard aware of concerning Fear and Trembling?
(a) It is not that good.
(b) It will be translated into many languages.
(c) Everyone will hate it.
(d) The Denmark Church will be offended.

2. What does Kierkegaard think will happen with what his family received?
(a) It will continue.
(b) It is something of the past.
(c) It will disappear.
(d) It will come from time to time.

3. What does Kierkegaard say of the truth that teaches and builds up the human person in Two Edifying Discourses?
(a) It is the only truth worth having.
(b) It is the only truth that can make a difference in our lives.
(c) It is one truth among many.
(d) It is useless.

4. With what book does Kierkegaard's work reach maturity according to Robert Bretall in Chapter 6?
(a) Unscientific Postscript.
(b) How to be a Christian.
(c) The Fragments.
(d) The Journals.

5. What does Kierkegaard say truth is discovered in?
(a) One self.
(b) The heart.
(c) Faith.
(d) Dialectics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Stages on Life's Way divide according to Robert Bretall in Chapter 7?

2. What does Kierkegaard's pseudonymous writing tell part of?

3. What is the name of the best known section of Stages on Life's Way?

4. What name does Kierkegaard use to publish the Two Edifying Discourses?

5. What do truth and art require according to Fear and Trembling?

Short Essay Questions

1. What must we go beyond according to Kierkegaard?

2. What is life according to Kierkegaard?

3. Where does Kierkegaard find himself, and what is he doing in Chapter 1, The Journals?

4. Who is Regina Olsen?

5. What does Kierkegaard say about truth not being within ourselves in Chapter 6, Philosophical Fragments?

6. What excruciating combination does the young hero in Chapter 5, Repetition endure?

7. Who had an enormous influence on German philosophy, and what do many intellectuals agree on?

8. What does Constantine receive and what does he want to remain?

9. What does Kierkegaard believe about truth in Two Edifying Discourses?

10. What does Kierkegaard feel about the gifts God gives his family?

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