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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. Who's lecture does Kierkegaard attend?
(a) Hegel's.
(b) Igor Stensen's.
(c) Schelling's.
(d) Socrates'.

2. What does Kierkegaard say truth is constituted of?
(a) Faith and events.
(b) The word of Christ.
(c) Love.
(d) Parts that may initially seem at odds.

3. What does Kierkegaard ask but does not give answers to in the Fragments?
(a) Will society resist modernity out of love of Christ?
(b) The questions crucial to Christianity to survive modernity.
(c) Does Christ love us when we don't love him?
(d) Who am I?

4. How old is Kierkegaard at the age of his conversion?
(a) 35 years old.
(b) 26 years old.
(c) 25 years old.
(d) 14 years old.

5. What does Kierkegaard think Fear and Trembling will do to the reader?
(a) Make him convert.
(b) Amuse him.
(c) Make him think.
(d) Terrify him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the Two Edifying Discourse written for?

2. What is Kierkegaard stunned by in The Journals?

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

4. What does Kierkegaard argue life is?

5. What is Kierkegaard undergoing after his conversion?

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