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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joanna say human beings are like?
(a) Computers.
(b) Trees.
(c) Monkeys.
(d) Angels.

2. How is Alberto dressed when Sophie meets him at the church?
(a) In a tux.
(b) He is naked.
(c) Like a monk.
(d) In regular street clothes.

3. What does Sophie call her secret spot?
(a) The nest.
(b) The den.
(c) Her basket.
(d) Tranquility.

4. Why is Baruch Spinoza excommunicated?
(a) For heresy.
(b) For adultery.
(c) For thievery.
(d) For being a tax collector.

5. What does the introductory letter to Philosophy say?
(a) It gives a calendar of the course.
(b) It simply has a phone number and address.
(c) It proposes many questions.
(d) It lists several books for Sophie to read before her next lesson.

6. The second time Sophie goes to the Major's cabin, what does Sophie find?
(a) Money.
(b) Postcards addressed to Hilde.
(c) Alberto.
(d) Her coat.

7. According to Anaxagoras, what are seeds?
(a) Infinitely divisible particles.
(b) The young of a group.
(c) Grass and food for humans.
(d) Potential of ideas.

8. Ancient people used myths to explain what?
(a) The world.
(b) Humans.
(c) The planets.
(d) Nature.

9. When do white envelopes arrive for Sophie?
(a) During her nap time.
(b) During school hours.
(c) Midnight.
(d) In the morning.

10. What does Sophie find in the woods on her search for the philosopher?
(a) Philosophy lecture notes.
(b) A lake and a rowboat.
(c) A talking squirrel.
(d) Notes and a map.

11. What cultures comprise the Hellenism period?
(a) European and South American.
(b) Greek and Asian.
(c) American and Greek.
(d) African and Asian.

12. What does Anaximenes believe that everything comes from ?
(a) Water.
(b) Humans.
(c) Air.
(d) God.

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

14. What do the envelopes have in common?
(a) Both are blue.
(b) Neither has stamps.
(c) Both are typed.
(d) Neither are glued shut.

15. What does Empedocles believe plays a role in bringing things together?
(a) Health.
(b) Love.
(c) Technology.
(d) Communication.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Plato use math and geometry?

2. When Sophie confides in Alberto about her discovery after her dream, how does Alberto react?

3. What does Sophie do with the physical philosophy lessons?

4. Politically, what is the Baroque period characterized with?

5. When Alberto shows Sophie a computer, how does Major Albert Knag appear?

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