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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 Kierkegaard call faith?
(a) The organ of understanding.
(b) The way to love Christ.
(c) The best thing man has.
(d) The reason for being.

2. What does the pseudonymous author of The Fragments resist?
(a) Discipleship of Jesus.
(b) Love.
(c) Discovering himself.
(d) Going to church.

3. What does the human hide from with all his energy according to Kierkegaard?
(a) His desires.
(b) Christ.
(c) Himself.
(d) Truth.

4. What does Kierkegaard argue is merely foreshadowed in Stages on Life's Way?
(a) Love.
(b) Christ.
(c) Religions.
(d) Hatred

5. Where does the idea of Repetition derive from?
(a) The rise of Christian dogma.
(b) Regina's life.
(c) The life of Christ.
(d) Kierkegaard's own life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard say forms Repetition?

2. What is the main theme of Fear and Trembling?

3. What does Kierkegaard think Fear and Trembling represents?

4. What does Kierkegaard argue we always place our consciousness in?

5. When does Kierkegaard write Repetition?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the question raised in Chapter 6, Philosophical Fragments?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Who is Regina Olsen?

10. What theme do the letters prefigure?

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