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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 Kierkegaard think Fear and Trembling represents?
(a) His entire life.
(b) Regina's past.
(c) His childhood.
(d) The word of Christ.

2. Who's ideas does Kierkegaard oppose in Either/Or?
(a) Proust.
(b) Plato.
(c) G.W.F Hegel.
(d) Socrates.

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

4. What cities does Kierkegaard write Either/Or in?
(a) Berlin and Copenhagen.
(b) London and Paris.
(c) Paris and Nice.
(d) Rome and Berlin.

5. What does Kierkegaard's pseudonymous writing tell part of?
(a) His thoughts on aspects of his philosophy.
(b) Hegel's views.
(c) Regina's views.
(d) Socrates' views.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do truth and art require according to Fear and Trembling?

2. What does Kierkegaard argue major choices in life are choices of?

3. What is Kierkegaard stunned by in The Journals?

4. Who does Kierkegaard think is the most likely person to understand the ideas in Fear and Trembling?

5. What does Kierkegaard use when he writes about the Knight of Faith with the Knight of Infinite Resignation?

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