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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 is the name of the best known section of Stages on Life's Way?

2. What does Kierkegaard argue men always appear to be biased by?

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

4. What topic does Either/Or end with?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is life according to Kierkegaard?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What theme do the letters prefigure?

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

10. What does Kierkegaard say about humanity?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine how Kierkegaard defines the spirit and the self and how man contains both the infinite and the finite. Use the text to support your discussion.

Essay Topic 2

Kierkegaard takes a break from writing for a few years, while waiting for Bishop Mysnter to pass before publishing again. Examine the relationship between Mynster and Kierkegaard, using the text and secondary sources to support your discussion.

Essay Topic 3

Writing under the pseudonym, Climacus, Kierkegaard describes faith in the language of the absurd in the sense of the improbable. Discuss Kierkegaard's use of the term with that of Albert Camus's understanding. Use the text to support your discussion and examine the paradox created.

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