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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 the note say inside Sophie's first envelope?
(a) What is here?
(b) Who are you?
(c) What are you doing?
(d) Where do you belong?

2. How does Plato use math and geometry?
(a) To build houses.
(b) To teach others less fortunate.
(c) To gain money.
(d) To aid him in obtaining true knowledge.

3. Who is the only other being Sophie takes to her den with her?
(a) Her cat.
(b) Joanna.
(c) Her mother.
(d) No one.

4. What are the teacher's thoughts concerning Sophie's religious exam?
(a) That her answers are incredible.
(b) That her approach was rude.
(c) That her knowledge is limited.
(d) That she copied her answers.

5. What does Jesus say that he wants to bring to the whole world?
(a) Trial and confusion.
(b) Good will and peace.
(c) Trust and hope.
(d) Salvation and atonement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do philosophers keep that babies have and adults lose?

2. After Sophie returns home from meeting Alberto, what does she see in the mirror?

3. When Sophie's mother sees her playing with Legos, what does Sophie tell her mother?

4. Who designed the first Academy?

5. What does Sophie take from the Major's cabin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Epicureans believe in seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. Is this a theme of the novel? Why?

2. What did Sophie learn from working with Legos in connection to Democritus?

3. Why does Sophie continue to do this homework, even though it is not required of her?

4. What kind of teacher is Alberto? Why?

5. What is Sophie's den symbolic of? How?

6. Sophie immediately thinks about the first question, "Who are you?" How does this indirectly characterize her?

7. When Sophie sees the large board with the word "Hilde" on it, does this foreshadow who "Hilde' is?

8. Is Sophie's mother's reaction to her daughter's studies and new attitude realistic? Why?

9. What is an example of the Indo-European view of history concerning cycles of history that start over again?

10. Sophie recalls that time is different for the Major and HIlde, than for Sophie and Alberto. How would this exist?

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