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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Kierkegaard write his pseudonymous work for according to Fear and Trembling?
(a) Regina.
(b) The public.
(c) Himself.
(d) God.

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

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

4. What does Kierkegaard meditate on in Fear and Trembling?
(a) A sparrow.
(b) The resurrection.
(c) Abraham's call to kill his son Isaac.
(d) The incarnation.

5. Who is Regina Olsen?
(a) Kierkegaard's editor.
(b) Kierkegaard's agent.
(c) Kierkegaard's sister.
(d) Kierkegaard's fiancee.

6. What does Kierkegaard say truth is constituted of?
(a) The word of Christ.
(b) Love.
(c) Parts that may initially seem at odds.
(d) Faith and events.

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

8. What is Kierkegaard aware of in The Journals?
(a) His nothingness.
(b) His errors.
(c) His self interest.
(d) His longing for Regina.

9. What city does Kierkegaard live in according to Robert Bretall in Chapter 5?
(a) Munich.
(b) London.
(c) Paris.
(d) Berlin.

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

11. What is Kierkegaard stunned by in The Journals?
(a) His own feeling.
(b) The feelings of Chris.
(c) His own nothingness.
(d) The power of God.

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

13. How many realms does Stages on Life's Way discuss?
(a) 2 realms.
(b) 5 realms.
(c) 4 realms.
(d) 3 realms.

14. What does Kierkegaard ask but does not give answers to in the Fragments?
(a) Will society resist modernity out of love of Christ?
(b) Who am I?
(c) Does Christ love us when we don't love him?
(d) The questions crucial to Christianity to survive modernity.

15. What topic does Either/Or end with?
(a) Love.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Christ.
(d) Ethics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who's lecture does Kierkegaard attend?

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

3. What does Kierkegaard think what his family receives is?

4. Outside of what does Fear and Trembling not make sense?

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

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