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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the best known section of Stages on Life's Way?
(a) The banquet.
(b) The restaurant.
(c) The last supper.
(d) The meal.

2. What is Kierkegaard feeling at the start of The Journals?
(a) Fear
(b) Love.
(c) Loss.
(d) Contentment.

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

4. What does Kierkegaard distinguish between in Either/Or?
(a) Catholics and Protestant dogma.
(b) Direct and indirect communication.
(c) Life and death.
(d) Love and hate.

5. Who does Kierkegaard think is the most likely person to understand the ideas in Fear and Trembling?
(a) Regina.
(b) A priest.
(c) A theologian.
(d) Himself.

6. What does Kierkegaard attempt to do according to Robert Bretall in Chapter 5?
(a) Love himself.
(b) Attend church.
(c) Act as honestly as possible.
(d) Marry Regina.

7. What does humanity need according to Kierkegaard?
(a) A love.
(b) The church.
(c) A teacher.
(d) Christ.

8. What does the human hide from with all his energy according to Kierkegaard?
(a) His desires.
(b) Himself.
(c) Truth.
(d) Christ.

9. How long does it take Kierkegaard to write Fear and Trembling?
(a) 2 years.
(b) Less than 60 days.
(c) 35 days.
(d) 5 months.

10. What does the hero of Repetition have trouble finding?
(a) A true union with the woman he loves.
(b) Himself.
(c) A good church.
(d) Christ.

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

12. What is Kierkegaard's pseudonym in Repetition?
(a) Marc Antony.
(b) Constantine Contantius.
(c) Julius Antonius.
(d) Constantine Traversius.

13. What does Kierkegaard argue we always place our consciousness in?
(a) Our body.
(b) The love of Christ.
(c) Church.
(d) Experience.

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

15. What does Kierkegaard believe lies at the center of Christianity?
(a) A cross.
(b) A religiosity of paradoxes.
(c) Christ.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city does Kierkegaard live in according to Robert Bretall in Chapter 5?

2. What does Chapter 1 say Kierkegaard is conflicted between?

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

4. What does Kierkegaard argue is merely foreshadowed in Stages on Life's Way?

5. What does Kierkegaard think will happen with what his family received?

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