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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Robert Bretall think of Repetition?
(a) It is a humorist's piece.
(b) It is Kierkegaard's best work of literature.
(c) It is full of holes in logic.
(d) It is one of the worse works by Kierkegaard.

2. How does Kierkegaard call the first piece of Stages on Life's Way?
(a) Love/Christ.
(b) Guilty/Not Guilty.
(c) Faith/Death.
(d) Love/Hate.

3. When does Kierkegaard argue that action is only comprehensible?
(a) When Christ is present.
(b) When there is possibility.
(c) When faith guides our actions.
(d) When told to.

4. What do truth and art require according to Fear and Trembling?
(a) Taste.
(b) The hand of Christ.
(c) An acquaintance with bias.
(d) Love of God.

5. How does Kierkegaard characterize Hegel's thinking?
(a) Ridiculous.
(b) Limited.
(c) Faithless.
(d) Right.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is Concluding Unscientific Postscript published?

2. Who's lecture does Kierkegaard attend?

3. What does Kierkegaard do before leaving for Berlin at the star of Either/Or?

4. What does Kierkegaard argue life is?

5. How long did reason-based and systematized thinking dominate European philosophy?

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