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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the idea of Repetition derive from?
(a) The life of Christ.
(b) The rise of Christian dogma.
(c) Kierkegaard's own life.
(d) Regina's life.

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

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

4. What does Kierkegaard know about himself in The Journals?
(a) He is a fraud.
(b) He loves God.
(c) He is both great and small.
(d) He is mistaken.

5. What does Kierkegaard think Fear and Trembling represents?
(a) His entire life.
(b) Regina's past.
(c) His childhood.
(d) The word of Christ.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Robert Bretall think of Repetition?

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

3. Who is Regina Olsen?

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

5. How many realms does Stages on Life's Way discuss?

Short Essay Questions

1. What banquet is referred to in Chapter 7, Stages on Life's Way?

2. Who had an enormous influence on German philosophy, and what do many intellectuals agree on?

3. What does the truth or art require in Chapter 4, Fear and Trembling?

4. What did Kierkegaard distinguish between in Chapter 2, Either/Or, A Fragment of Life?

5. What do those at the banquet held in Chapter 7, Stages on Life's Way find?

6. What is inverted, according to Kierkegaard?

7. What did Kierkegaard have a radical hatred for?

8. What do we always place consciousness in, according to Kierkegaard?

9. How does the young hero depicted in Chapter 5, Repetition, resonate with Kierkegaard?

10. Where does Kierkegaard find himself, and what is he doing in Chapter 1, The Journals?

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