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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, The Attack Upon Christendom.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the first volume of Either/Or?
(a) The Seducer's Diary.
(b) The Square Method.
(c) The Rotation Method.
(d) Christ.

2. In Chapter 13, what does Robert Bretall argue 1848 is for Kierkegaard's writing?
(a) The year he starts doubting Christ.
(b) The year of his first commercial success.
(c) The height of his productivity.
(d) The year he realizes he still loves Regina.

3. What does Kierkegaard use when he writes about the Knight of Faith with the Knight of Infinite Resignation?
(a) Humor.
(b) Impossible situations.
(c) Fear.
(d) Paradoxes.

4. Who wrote the preface of Two Discourses?
(a) Hegel.
(b) Regina Olsen.
(c) Kierkegaard himself.
(d) Bishop Hollaf.

5. How does Kierkegaard see the move towards equality as being?
(a) A mistake.
(b) An illusion.
(c) As regression.
(d) As progress.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard say truth is constituted of?

2. What does Kierkegaard's work focus on?

3. Who does Bishop Mynster's eulogy compare him to?

4. When does Kierkegaard write about truth in Either/Or?

5. What does Kierkegaard attempt to do according to Robert Bretall in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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