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

2. When does Kierkegaard write about truth in Either/Or?
(a) In Chapter 2.
(b) Toward the middle.
(c) Toward the end.
(d) In the first chapter.

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

4. Who does Kierkegaard think is the most likely person to understand the ideas in Fear and Trembling?
(a) A priest.
(b) A theologian.
(c) Regina.
(d) Himself.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Kierkegaard at the age of his conversion?

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

3. What does Kierkegaard say forms Repetition?

4. What do many intellectuals agree on in the 19th century concerning distinctions?

5. What does the human hide from with all his energy according to Kierkegaard?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What words of Christ was Kierkegaard aware of in Chapter 1,The Journals?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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