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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 Robert Bretall say Kierkegaard is in the Two Edifying Discourses?
(a) A fiction writer.
(b) A liar.
(c) A theopolian.
(d) A poet.

2. What does Kierkegaard argue major choices in life are not choices of?
(a) Intellect.
(b) Luck.
(c) Love.
(d) God.

3. What is the name of the best known section of Stages on Life's Way?
(a) The restaurant.
(b) The banquet.
(c) The meal.
(d) The last supper.

4. What does Kierkegaard believe lies at the center of Christianity?
(a) Truth.
(b) A cross.
(c) A religiosity of paradoxes.
(d) Christ.

5. What is Kierkegaard undergoing after his conversion?
(a) The flu.
(b) A change of heart.
(c) A terrible revolution.
(d) A physical transformation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city does Kierkegaard live in according to Robert Bretall in Chapter 5?

2. What do truth and art require according to Fear and Trembling?

3. What does Kierkegaard think will happen with what his family received?

4. What is Kierkegaard stunned by in The Journals?

5. How does Kierkegaard characterize his interpretation of the facts after his conversion?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the prophecy in Chapter 5, Repetition come to pass?

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

3. How is truth discovered according to Two Edifying Discourses?

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

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

6. What do we always place consciousness in, according to Kierkegaard?

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

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

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

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

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