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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Kierkegaard's pseudonymous writing tell part of?
(a) His thoughts on aspects of his philosophy.
(b) Regina's views.
(c) Socrates' views.
(d) Hegel's views.

3. What does Kierkegaard distinguish between in Either/Or?
(a) Love and hate.
(b) Direct and indirect communication.
(c) Catholics and Protestant dogma.
(d) Life and death.

4. What does the first letter in Either/Or analyze?
(a) Christ.
(b) Death.
(c) Romantic love.
(d) God's influence on mankind.

5. What does Kierkegaard believe lies at the center of Christianity?
(a) A cross.
(b) Truth.
(c) A religiosity of paradoxes.
(d) Christ.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Robert Bretall say is difficult to discern in Kierkegaard's writing?

2. What is Kierkegaard aware of in The Journals?

3. What does the human hide from with all his energy according to Kierkegaard?

4. What is Kierkegaard letting himself do at the start of The Journals?

5. What does Kierkegaard say truth is discovered in?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who had an enormous influence on German philosophy, and what do many intellectuals agree on?

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

3. What do we always place consciousness in, according to Kierkegaard?

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

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

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

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

8. What did Kierkegaard have a radical hatred for?

9. What is inverted, according to Kierkegaard?

10. Who is Regina Olsen?

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