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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Purity of Heart, Edifying Discourses in Various Spirits, Chapter 11, Works of Love, Chapter 12, The Point of View For My Work as an Author.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did reason-based and systematized thinking dominate European philosophy?
(a) 256 years.
(b) 150 years.
(c) 325 years.
(d) 200 years.

2. What does Chapter 1 say Kierkegaard is conflicted between?
(a) Love and hate.
(b) Wonder and despair.
(c) Wonder and hate.
(d) Love and despair.

3. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 10 say the pseudonymous work aims at?
(a) Captures Kierkegaard the man.
(b) Tells people the truth without fear of retaliation.
(c) Convinces people to convert.
(d) Talks about the failures of Christianity.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard argue men always appear to be biased by?

2. What is Kierkegaard letting himself do at the start of The Journals?

3. What does Robert Bretall say is difficult to discern in Kierkegaard's writing?

4. What is the main theme of Fear and Trembling?

5. What does the first piece of Stages on Life's Way cover?

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