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

2. What do truth and art require according to Fear and Trembling?
(a) The hand of Christ.
(b) An acquaintance with bias.
(c) Taste.
(d) Love of God.

3. Where does The Journals say Kierkegaard was on July 29, 1835?
(a) Silkeborg.
(b) Ribe.
(c) Copenhagen.
(d) Gilbjerg.

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

5. What pseudonym does Kierkegaard use to publish Either/Or?
(a) Sophie Marcus.
(b) Victor Eremita.
(c) Emile Proust.
(d) Marcus Temporarus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who's ideas does Kierkegaard oppose in Either/Or?

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

3. Who is Regina Olsen?

4. What is Kierkegaard aware of in The Journals?

5. What is Kierkegaard feeling at the start of The Journals?

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