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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the Two Edifying Discourse written for?
(a) Make money.
(b) To strengthen the faith of the individual.
(c) Contradict Hegel.
(d) Seduce Regina.

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

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

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

5. What country's philosophy does the philosopher who Kierkegaard opposes in Either/Or most influence?
(a) France.
(b) Italy.
(c) Germany.
(d) Denmark.

6. How does Kierkegaard call the first piece of Stages on Life's Way?
(a) Love/Hate.
(b) Love/Christ.
(c) Faith/Death.
(d) Guilty/Not Guilty.

7. How does Kierkegaard characterize his interpretation of the facts after his conversion?
(a) Infallible.
(b) Limited.
(c) Right.
(d) Wrong.

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

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

10. What prevents the hero in Repetition from finding what he wants?
(a) Christ.
(b) His love of God.
(c) His depression and introspection.
(d) His family.

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

12. What do The Journals say Kierkegaard feels?
(a) Torn.
(b) In love.
(c) Happy.
(d) Sad.

13. What does Kierkegaard say "is given its rights"?
(a) Love.
(b) The religious realm.
(c) Christ.
(d) Hatred.

14. What does Kierkegaard think what his family receives is?
(a) Bad luck.
(b) A good omen.
(c) A punishment.
(d) Money.

15. What does Kierkegaard argue the human is in?
(a) Earth.
(b) Error.
(c) Truth.
(d) The palm of god.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard meditate on in Fear and Trembling?

2. What does Kierkegaard argue men always appear to be biased by?

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

4. What does Kierkegaard say truth is discovered in?

5. Who is Regina Olsen?

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