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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Purity of Heart, Edifying Discourses in Various Spirits, Chapter 11, Works of Love, Chapter 12, The Point of View For My Work as an Author.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What pseudonym does Kierkegaard use to write the second piece of Stages on Life's Way?
(a) Frater Turburus.
(b) Frater Tactiturnus.
(c) Moter Tactimus.
(d) Julius Manuterus.

2. What does Kierkegaard say truth is constituted of?
(a) The word of Christ.
(b) Faith and events.
(c) Love.
(d) Parts that may initially seem at odds.

3. What is Kierkegaard undergoing after his conversion?
(a) The flu.
(b) A terrible revolution.
(c) A physical transformation.
(d) A change of heart.

4. What does Kierkegaard attempt to do according to Robert Bretall in Chapter 5?
(a) Attend church.
(b) Love himself.
(c) Act as honestly as possible.
(d) Marry Regina.

5. What does the hero of Repetition have trouble finding?
(a) A good church.
(b) Himself.
(c) A true union with the woman he loves.
(d) Christ.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do many intellectuals agree on in the 19th century concerning distinctions?

2. What does Repetition have that lacks in many of Kierkegaard's works?

3. What does Kierkegaard argue we always place our consciousness in?

4. What does Kierkegaard think will happen with what his family received?

5. What does Robert Bretall in Chapter 10 say Kierkegaard's work written under his own name aims at?

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