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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Fear and Trembling.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Kierkegaard and Regina's relationship?
(a) Kierkegaard fires her.
(b) Regina dies.
(c) Kierkegaard replaces her.
(d) Kierkegaard breaks off the engagement.

2. What does Robert Bretall say is difficult to discern in Kierkegaard's writing?
(a) If he is Christian.
(b) If the love of Christ guides him.
(c) Who he is talking to.
(d) Which aspects of Kierkegaard are present.

3. Who's letter does Either/Or contain a series of?
(a) Hegel's.
(b) Regina's.
(c) Judge William's.
(d) Socrates'.

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

5. What does Kierkegaard say truth is constituted of?
(a) Faith and events.
(b) The word of Christ.
(c) Parts that may initially seem at odds.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard say of the truth that teaches and builds up the human person in Two Edifying Discourses?

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

3. What is Kierkegaard aware of in The Journals?

4. How does Kierkegaard characterize his interpretation of the facts after his conversion?

5. Who does Kierkegaard write his pseudonymous work for according to Fear and Trembling?

(see the answer key)

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