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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 Kierkegaard fight against according to Robert Bretall in Chapter 5?

2. What is Kierkegaard's pseudonym in Repetition?

3. What pseudonym does Kierkegaard use to write the second piece of Stages on Life's Way?

4. Who's lecture does Kierkegaard attend?

5. What does Kierkegaard think what his family receives is?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Kierkegaard believe about truth in Two Edifying Discourses?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is inverted, according to Kierkegaard?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Kierkegaard's view of Socrates and examine similarities between Socrates and Kierkegaard. Use the text to support your discussion.

Essay Topic 2

Kierkegaard focuses heavily on Abraham and Isaac while discussing the aesthetic life. Examine Kierkegaard's definition of the aesthetic life and compare the three stages of life outlined by Kierkegaard. Use the text to support your discussion.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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