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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 cities does Kierkegaard write Either/Or in?
(a) London and Paris.
(b) Berlin and Copenhagen.
(c) Rome and Berlin.
(d) Paris and Nice.

2. What does Robert Bretall say is difficult to discern in Kierkegaard's writing?
(a) Which aspects of Kierkegaard are present.
(b) If the love of Christ guides him.
(c) Who he is talking to.
(d) If he is Christian.

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

4. When does Kierkegaard write Repetition?
(a) 1854.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1843.
(d) 1853.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard argue the human is in?

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

3. What are the Two Edifying Discourse written for?

4. Who's letter does Either/Or contain a series of?

5. What does Kierkegaard call faith?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Kierkegaard believe about truth in Two Edifying Discourses?

5. What excruciating combination does the young hero in Chapter 5, Repetition endure?

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

7. What does Constantine receive and what does he want to remain?

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

9. What is inverted, according to Kierkegaard?

10. Who is Regina Olsen?

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