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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the first letter in Either/Or analyze?

2. What does Kierkegaard argue major choices in life are not choices of?

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

4. What does Kierkegaard think his family received?

5. What is Kierkegaard letting himself do at the start of The Journals?

Short Essay Questions

1. What three stages does Kierkegaard introduce in Chapter 7, Stages on Life's Way?

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

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

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

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

6. How does the young hero depicted in Chapter 5, Repetition, resonate with Kierkegaard?

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

8. What did Kierkegaard have a radical hatred for?

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

10. Who had an enormous influence on German philosophy, and what do many intellectuals agree on?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Kierkegaard is considered the father of existentialism and maintained that the individual is responsible for giving life meaning. Discuss the tenets of existentialism and how it asserts the importance of human individuality.

Essay Topic 2

Examine how repetition occurred in Kierkegaard's own life, as well as the plot and how repetition has a plot. Use the text to support your discussion.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the definition of truth in relation to faith, truth being "an objective uncertainty held fast" and that "without risk, there is no faith." Use the text to discuss the interplay of truth and faith in the Kierkegaard Anthology.

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