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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Philosophical Fragments, or a Fragment of Philosophy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard feel about the prevalent ideas about the universe and distinction?
(a) He hates them.
(b) He embraces them.
(c) He doubts them.
(d) He finds them unsubstantiated.

2. What is the main theme of Fear and Trembling?
(a) Commitment.
(b) Fear.
(c) The encounter between the individual and the universe.
(d) Love.

3. What does Kierkegaard argue life is?
(a) A series of stark choices.
(b) A series of moments.
(c) The time between our acceptance of the love of Christ and our death.
(d) The time between our birth and our death.

4. What name does Kierkegaard use to publish the Two Edifying Discourses?
(a) Marcus Angelicus.
(b) Lorentium Sisium.
(c) His own.
(d) Natus Metalus.

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

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 distinguish between in Either/Or?

3. Outside of what does Fear and Trembling not make sense?

4. What does Kierkegaard say truth is constituted of?

5. What pseudonym does Kierkegaard use to publish Either/Or?

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