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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 does Kierkegaard distinguish between in Either/Or?
(a) Love and hate.
(b) Direct and indirect communication.
(c) Catholics and Protestant dogma.
(d) Life and death.

2. Who does Kierkegaard write his pseudonymous work for according to Fear and Trembling?
(a) God.
(b) Regina.
(c) Himself.
(d) The public.

3. What does Kierkegaard ask but does not give answers to in the Fragments?
(a) Does Christ love us when we don't love him?
(b) Will society resist modernity out of love of Christ?
(c) Who am I?
(d) The questions crucial to Christianity to survive modernity.

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

5. What does Kierkegaard say he cannot do with Regina?
(a) Travel.
(b) Talk religion.
(c) Share things about himself.
(d) Talk to her about her work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main theme of Fear and Trembling?

2. What does the pseudonymous author of The Fragments resist?

3. What does Kierkegaard argue the human is in?

4. How old is Kierkegaard at the age of his conversion?

5. What does Kierkegaard argue major choices in life are not choices of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is inverted, according to Kierkegaard?

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

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

4. What is the terrible revolution which Kierkegaard speaks of in Chapter 1, The Journals?

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

6. What banquet is referred to in Chapter 7, Stages on Life's Way?

7. What must the individual Christian see in Chapter 3, Two Edifying Discourses?

8. How does the prophecy in Chapter 5, Repetition come to pass?

9. What do we always place consciousness in, according to Kierkegaard?

10. What does Kierkegaard believe cannot be escaped by us?

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