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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. What does the first piece of Stages on Life's Way cover?
(a) Love in Christ.
(b) Love and aesthetic.
(c) Trust in the state Church.
(d) The role of Bishops.

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

3. What is the name of the first volume of Either/Or?
(a) The Seducer's Diary.
(b) Christ.
(c) The Rotation Method.
(d) The Square Method.

4. What do many intellectuals agree on in the 19th century concerning the universe?
(a) The Universe is infinite.
(b) The Universe is where we are.
(c) Universe is pure unity.
(d) The Universe is limited only by our love of Christ.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard give up on according to Robert Bretall Chapter 5?

2. Which of the Two Edifying Discourses does Kierkegaard prefer?

3. What prevents the hero in Repetition from finding what he wants?

4. What does Robert Bretall think of Repetition?

5. What does Kierkegaard argue major choices in life are not choices of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What theme do the letters prefigure?

2. What is the terrible revolution which Kierkegaard speaks of in Chapter 1, The Journals?

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

4. What three stages does Kierkegaard introduce in Chapter 7, Stages on Life's Way?

5. What does Kierkegaard say about truth not being within ourselves in Chapter 6, Philosophical Fragments?

6. What did Kierkegaard have a radical hatred for?

7. Who is Regina Olsen?

8. What is inverted, according to Kierkegaard?

9. What does Kierkegaard feel about the gifts God gives his family?

10. What passage from the Bible does Kierkegaard focus on in Chapter 4, Fear and Trembling?

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