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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 Robert Bretall think of Repetition?
(a) It is full of holes in logic.
(b) It is one of the worse works by Kierkegaard.
(c) It is Kierkegaard's best work of literature.
(d) It is a humorist's piece.

2. What pseudonym does Kierkegaard use to write the second piece of Stages on Life's Way?
(a) Frater Turburus.
(b) Frater Tactiturnus.
(c) Moter Tactimus.
(d) Julius Manuterus.

3. What does Kierkegaard argue the truth is outside of?
(a) The other.
(b) The self.
(c) Christ.
(d) Love.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard call faith?

2. What name does Kierkegaard use to publish the Two Edifying Discourses?

3. What does Kierkegaard think his family received?

4. What is the name of the best known section of Stages on Life's Way?

5. What is Kierkegaard letting himself do at the start of The Journals?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard believe cannot be escaped by us?

2. What must we go beyond according to Kierkegaard?

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

4. What must the individual Christian see in Chapter 3, Two Edifying Discourses?

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

6. What does Kierkegaard turn away from in Chapter 1, The Journals?

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

8. What does Kierkegaard publish at the beginning of Chapter 2, Either/Or, A Fragment of Life and why does it represent him well?

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

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

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