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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 pseudonym does Kierkegaard use to write the second piece of Stages on Life's Way?
(a) Frater Turburus.
(b) Julius Manuterus.
(c) Moter Tactimus.
(d) Frater Tactiturnus.

2. What does Robert Bretall think of Repetition?
(a) It is Kierkegaard's best work of literature.
(b) It is full of holes in logic.
(c) It is a humorist's piece.
(d) It is one of the worse works by Kierkegaard.

3. What does Repetition have that lacks in many of Kierkegaard's works?
(a) Humor.
(b) A plot.
(c) Chapters.
(d) A third person point of view.

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

5. What topic does Either/Or end with?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Christ.
(c) Love.
(d) Ethics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Kierkegaard aware of in The Journals?

2. What pseudonym does Kierkegaard use to publish Either/Or?

3. Where does The Journals say Kierkegaard was on July 29, 1835?

4. When does Kierkegaard write about truth in Either/Or?

5. Who's letter does Either/Or contain a series of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is life according to Kierkegaard?

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

3. What does Kierkegaard turn away from in Chapter 1, The Journals?

4. What does Kierkegaard say about humanity?

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

6. What passage from the Bible does Kierkegaard focus on in Chapter 4, Fear and Trembling?

7. What does Kierkegaard publish at the beginning of Chapter 2, Either/Or, A Fragment of Life and why does it represent him well?

8. What theme do the letters prefigure?

9. How is truth discovered according to Two Edifying Discourses?

10. What does the truth or art require in Chapter 4, Fear and Trembling?

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