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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Stages on Life's Way divide according to Robert Bretall in Chapter 7?
(a) Lies and superstitions.
(b) How to love Christ.
(c) Life.
(d) Spheres of existence.

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

3. What does Kierkegaard call faith?
(a) The way to love Christ.
(b) The best thing man has.
(c) The reason for being.
(d) The organ of understanding.

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

5. What does Kierkegaard say must stop being the ultimate goal and motivation for life in Stages of Life's Way?
(a) Faith.
(b) Money.
(c) Aesthetic.
(d) Beauty.

6. What is Kierkegaard aware of concerning Fear and Trembling?
(a) Everyone will hate it.
(b) It is not that good.
(c) It will be translated into many languages.
(d) The Denmark Church will be offended.

7. What do truth and art require according to Fear and Trembling?
(a) An acquaintance with bias.
(b) Taste.
(c) Love of God.
(d) The hand of Christ.

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

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

10. What does Robert Bretall say Kierkegaard is in the Two Edifying Discourses?
(a) A theopolian.
(b) A poet.
(c) A fiction writer.
(d) A liar.

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

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

13. What does Kierkegaard say truth is discovered in?
(a) The heart.
(b) Faith.
(c) One self.
(d) Dialectics.

14. What pseudonym does Kierkegaard use to write the second piece of Stages on Life's Way?
(a) Moter Tactimus.
(b) Frater Tactiturnus.
(c) Frater Turburus.
(d) Julius Manuterus.

15. What does Kierkegaard feel about the prevalent ideas about the universe and distinction?
(a) He embraces them.
(b) He doubts them.
(c) He hates them.
(d) He finds them unsubstantiated.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Kierkegaard aware of in The Journals?

3. What does Kierkegaard say he cannot do with Regina?

4. What book sets the stage for Kierkegaard's mature work?

5. What is Kierkegaard's pseudonym in Repetition?

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