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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. What does Chapter 8 say about Hegel and his followers?
(a) They are savages in every way.
(b) They do not compromise.
(c) They are good men.
(d) They refuse to debate.

2. What pseudonym does Kierkegaard use for The Fragments?
(a) Stuartus Sagitarus.
(b) Johannes Climacus.
(c) Salus Salenicus.
(d) Romanos Anasicus.

3. When were the last of Kierkegaard aesthetic writings published according to Robert Bretall in Chapter 7?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1855.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1846.

4. What does Robert Bretall think of Repetition?
(a) It is a humorist's piece.
(b) It is Kierkegaard's best work of literature.
(c) It is full of holes in logic.
(d) It is one of the worse works by Kierkegaard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kierkegaard define truth in Concluding Unscientific Postscript?

2. What does Kierkegaard think his family received?

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

4. What is the name of the best known section of Stages on Life's Way?

5. When does Kierkegaard argue that action is only comprehensible?

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