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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 is the author arguing is more important than the content of Either/Or?
(a) The way the book was launched.
(b) Kierkegaard's analysis.
(c) Kierkegaard's footnotes.
(d) The title.

2. What is Kierkegaard undergoing after his conversion?
(a) A change of heart.
(b) The flu.
(c) A terrible revolution.
(d) A physical transformation.

3. Who does Kierkegaard write his pseudonymous work for according to Fear and Trembling?
(a) The public.
(b) Himself.
(c) Regina.
(d) God.

4. What do many intellectuals agree on in the 19th century concerning distinctions?
(a) Distinctions separate man from beast.
(b) Distinctions are overrated.
(c) Distinctions are not distinctive.
(d) Distinctions are illusory.

5. What is Kierkegaard stunned by in The Journals?
(a) His own nothingness.
(b) The power of God.
(c) The feelings of Chris.
(d) His own feeling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Kierkegaard aware of in The Journals?

2. Who is Regina Olsen?

3. What cities does Kierkegaard write Either/Or in?

4. What does Kierkegaard think his family received?

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

(see the answer key)

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