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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) 1865.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1846.
(d) 1855.

2. What happens to Kierkegaard and Regina's relationship?
(a) Kierkegaard replaces her.
(b) Kierkegaard fires her.
(c) Regina dies.
(d) Kierkegaard breaks off the engagement.

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

4. What does Kierkegaard distinguish between in Either/Or?
(a) Love and hate.
(b) Life and death.
(c) Catholics and Protestant dogma.
(d) Direct and indirect communication.

5. What does Kierkegaard think his family received?
(a) Good luck.
(b) A gift from God.
(c) A curse.
(d) An inheritance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard call faith?

2. What pseudonym does Kierkegaard use to publish Either/Or?

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

4. What does Kierkegaard give up on according to Robert Bretall Chapter 5?

5. What does Kierkegaard ask but does not give answers to in the Fragments?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What did Kierkegaard have a radical hatred for?

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

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

9. What theme do the letters prefigure?

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

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