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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, The Sickness Unto Death.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Kierkegaard describe what Christians call sin?
(a) Fun.
(b) Love.
(c) Aesthetic.
(d) Despair.

2. What does Kierkegaard use when he writes about the Knight of Faith with the Knight of Infinite Resignation?
(a) Humor.
(b) Impossible situations.
(c) Paradoxes.
(d) Fear.

3. What does Kierkegaard say must stop being the ultimate goal and motivation for life in Stages of Life's Way?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Faith.
(c) Aesthetic.
(d) Money.

4. In Chapter 13, what does Robert Bretall argue 1848 is for Kierkegaard's writing?
(a) The height of his productivity.
(b) The year of his first commercial success.
(c) The year he starts doubting Christ.
(d) The year he realizes he still loves Regina.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Kierkegaard think Fear and Trembling will do to the reader?

3. Outside of what does Fear and Trembling not make sense?

4. What does Kierkegaard argue is merely foreshadowed in Stages on Life's Way?

5. What does Kierkegaard meditate on in Fear and Trembling?

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