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

2. What does the hero of Repetition have trouble finding?
(a) Himself.
(b) A true union with the woman he loves.
(c) Christ.
(d) A good church.

3. What is the main theme of Fear and Trembling?
(a) Fear.
(b) The encounter between the individual and the universe.
(c) Commitment.
(d) Love.

4. What does the meditation in Fear and Trembling illustrate?
(a) Kierkegaard's happiness.
(b) Kierkegaard's love for mistery.
(c) Kierkegaard's love for Regina.
(d) Kierkegaard's regrets.

5. What is Kierkegaard stunned by in The Journals?
(a) The power of God.
(b) His own feeling.
(c) His own nothingness.
(d) The feelings of Chris.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Kierkegaard's pseudonym in Repetition?

2. What does Stages on Life's Way divide according to Robert Bretall in Chapter 7?

3. What pseudonym does Kierkegaard use for The Fragments?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What theme do the letters prefigure?

2. What does the Knight of Faith do in Chapter 4, Fear and Trembling?

3. Who is Regina Olsen?

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

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

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 did Kierkegaard have a radical hatred for?

8. What is life according to Kierkegaard?

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

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

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