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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Repetition: An Essay in Experimental Psychology.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard think his family received?
(a) A gift from God.
(b) Good luck.
(c) An inheritance.
(d) A curse.

2. Of what book is a large portion reproduced in Either/Or?
(a) The Seducer's Diary.
(b) Romantic Love.
(c) How to love.
(d) How to be a Christian.

3. What does Kierkegaard meditate on in Fear and Trembling?
(a) A sparrow.
(b) The resurrection.
(c) The incarnation.
(d) Abraham's call to kill his son Isaac.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard say forms Repetition?

2. What country's philosophy does the philosopher who Kierkegaard opposes in Either/Or most influence?

3. What do many intellectuals agree on in the 19th century concerning distinctions?

4. What does Robert Bretall think of Repetition?

5. What does the first letter in Either/Or analyze?

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