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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, the Baroque.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Aquinas pose concerning inanimate objects, animals, man and angels?
(a) If they are composed of the same matter.
(b) If time is the same for all of them.
(c) If they live in pain.
(d) If God treats them the same.

2. What does the note say inside Sophie's second envelope?
(a) How will you help Earth today?
(b) Where does the earth come from?
(c) Why are we here?
(d) What should your life be?

3. What does Sophie find in the regular mail as the story opens?
(a) A letter from Joanna.
(b) An empty box.
(c) A letter addressed to Hilde Knag.
(d) A love letter.

4. What does Sophie's mother think of the letters she receives?
(a) They are codes.
(b) She does not know about Sophie's letters.
(c) They are from a different country.
(d) They are love letters.

5. Philosophically, how are the Indians and Greeks connected?
(a) Both regard elders the same.
(b) They help each other in times of war.
(c) They share many of the same Gods.
(d) Their educations are generally the same.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Empedocles believe plays a role in bringing things together?

2. When do white envelopes arrive for Sophie?

3. The second time Sophie goes to the Major's cabin, what does Sophie find?

4. How old is Sophie when the novel opens?

5. What does the introductory letter to Philosophy say?

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