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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who's lecture does Kierkegaard attend?
(a) Socrates'.
(b) Igor Stensen's.
(c) Schelling's.
(d) Hegel's.

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

3. What cities does Kierkegaard write Either/Or in?
(a) Berlin and Copenhagen.
(b) London and Paris.
(c) Rome and Berlin.
(d) Paris and Nice.

4. What do many intellectuals agree on in the 19th century concerning distinctions?
(a) Distinctions are overrated.
(b) Distinctions separate man from beast.
(c) Distinctions are illusory.
(d) Distinctions are not distinctive.

5. What does Kierkegaard say of the realms discussed in Stages on Life's Way?
(a) They are all concrete forms of existance.
(b) They can all be mastered.
(c) They are all divided in 3.
(d) They all need Christ to make sense.

6. What happens to Kierkegaard and Regina's relationship?
(a) Regina dies.
(b) Kierkegaard fires her.
(c) Kierkegaard replaces her.
(d) Kierkegaard breaks off the engagement.

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

8. What name does Kierkegaard use to publish the Two Edifying Discourses?
(a) Natus Metalus.
(b) His own.
(c) Marcus Angelicus.
(d) Lorentium Sisium.

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

10. What does Kierkegaard think his family received?
(a) An inheritance.
(b) Good luck.
(c) A curse.
(d) A gift from God.

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

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

13. What is Kierkegaard letting himself do at the start of The Journals?
(a) Worship Christ.
(b) Pass out of himself.
(c) Remain silent.
(d) Indulge himself with food.

14. What does Kierkegaard do before leaving for Berlin at the star of Either/Or?
(a) Goes to church.
(b) Breaks off his engagement with Regina Olsen.
(c) Writes a book.
(d) Buries his dog, Maximus.

15. What pseudonym does Kierkegaard use to publish Either/Or?
(a) Emile Proust.
(b) Sophie Marcus.
(c) Victor Eremita.
(d) Marcus Temporarus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what book is a large portion reproduced in Either/Or?

2. What does Kierkegaard call faith?

3. What is Kierkegaard's pseudonym in Repetition?

4. How old is Kierkegaard at the age of his conversion?

5. What does Kierkegaard say of the truth that teaches and builds up the human person in Two Edifying Discourses?

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