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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through May.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Was there was a real woman in Kierkegaard's life named Cordelia?
(a) Yes, and her name was Cordelia Wahl.
(b) No.
(c) Yes, but her name was not Cordelia Wahl.
(d) Yes, but her name was Cordelia Smith.

2. He observes what in her eyes?
(a) Love.
(b) The light shining.
(c) Fear.
(d) Insanity.

3. Why does Cordelia stop looking for these people?
(a) She decides to go home.
(b) She cannot find them.
(c) She finds Johannes.
(d) She bores of looking for them.

4. On the fifteenth, who does Johannes thank because he was able to find Cordelia?
(a) Chance.
(b) God.
(c) Cordelia's aunt.
(d) Edward.

5. Johannes looks forward - intensely - to their rendezvous, and sees a rendezvous as what?
(a) An anxious moment for lovers.
(b) A beautiful moment for lovers.
(c) A secret moment for lovers.
(d) A decisive moment for lovers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Other girls delight in Johannes. Is he interested in them?

2. Johannes then continues to describe Cordelia, with remarks like "Her countenance is like a fruit" and "Her head is a ___________ head."

3. It should be noted at this point that Kierkegaard is the author writing from the perspective of a man who has come upon the letters of a man named Johannes, who Kierkegaard intends to represent who?

4. What has still not happened by the twenty-first?

5. Johannes is intent on inquiring more into who Cordelia is but worries about what?

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