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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main theme of Fear and Trembling?
(a) Fear.
(b) Love.
(c) The encounter between the individual and the universe.
(d) Commitment.

2. What does Kierkegaard know about himself in The Journals?
(a) He is both great and small.
(b) He is mistaken.
(c) He loves God.
(d) He is a fraud.

3. What does Kierkegaard fight against according to Robert Bretall in Chapter 5?
(a) The Denmark State Church.
(b) Subconscious aspects of the self.
(c) Regina.
(d) Himself.

4. Which of the Two Edifying Discourses does Kierkegaard prefer?
(a) The last one.
(b) All of them.
(c) The first one.
(d) None of them.

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

6. What does Kierkegaard give up on according to Robert Bretall Chapter 5?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Writing.
(c) Going to Church.
(d) Marrying Regina.

7. What does Repetition have that lacks in many of Kierkegaard's works?
(a) A third person point of view.
(b) A plot.
(c) Humor.
(d) Chapters.

8. What does Kierkegaard think will happen with what his family received?
(a) It will disappear.
(b) It is something of the past.
(c) It will come from time to time.
(d) It will continue.

9. What does Kierkegaard say of the truth that teaches and builds up the human person in Two Edifying Discourses?
(a) It is the only truth that can make a difference in our lives.
(b) It is useless.
(c) It is the only truth worth having.
(d) It is one truth among many.

10. What does Kierkegaard do before leaving for Berlin at the star of Either/Or?
(a) Breaks off his engagement with Regina Olsen.
(b) Writes a book.
(c) Buries his dog, Maximus.
(d) Goes to church.

11. What does the meditation in Fear and Trembling illustrate?
(a) Kierkegaard's love for Regina.
(b) Kierkegaard's love for mistery.
(c) Kierkegaard's happiness.
(d) Kierkegaard's regrets.

12. What does Kierkegaard argue we always place our consciousness in?
(a) Experience.
(b) Church.
(c) The love of Christ.
(d) Our body.

13. What does Kierkegaard argue is merely foreshadowed in Stages on Life's Way?
(a) Love.
(b) Hatred
(c) Christ.
(d) Religions.

14. What are the Two Edifying Discourse written for?
(a) Contradict Hegel.
(b) Seduce Regina.
(c) Make money.
(d) To strengthen the faith of the individual.

15. What does Kierkegaard think Fear and Trembling will do to the reader?
(a) Amuse him.
(b) Make him think.
(c) Terrify him.
(d) Make him convert.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard argue the human is in?

2. Who does Kierkegaard write his pseudonymous work for according to Fear and Trembling?

3. What pseudonym does Kierkegaard use to publish Either/Or?

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

5. What does Kierkegaard argue major choices in life are choices of?

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