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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 34, Counterpoint.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the HMS Beagle?
(a) A ship Darwin takes to South America.
(b) The car at Sophie's party.
(c) The exit that the Major takes at the airport.
(d) The type of dog Hermes is.

2. What is Darwin's theory that is included in "the Origin of the Species"?
(a) Natural selection through survival of the fittest.
(b) God providing all species with survival skills.
(c) Safety necessitates laws.
(d) Evil forces challenge God's plans.

3. 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?

4. Who designed the first Academy?
(a) Plato.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Freud.

5. What does Alberto tell Sophie concerning new philosophers?
(a) They are more advanced than previous philosophers.
(b) He is unfamiliar with them and can't teach them.
(c) Readers must struggle to find their deeper meanings.
(d) They are totally useless.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hilde think of Sophie and Alberto?

2. What is the Indo-European's view of history?

3. What is the little Match Girl like?

4. What does Hume say people's feelings are not based on?

5. Hegel states that prior philosophies search for what?

(see the answer key)

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