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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the Romantic era, what could dramas be written about?
(a) Love gone bad.
(b) Odd couples becoming popular.
(c) Teenagers and the pain they suffer while dating.
(d) Something ordinarily seen as absurd.

2. Simone de Beauvoir in her book "The Second Sex" states that women can choose an identity that is what?
(a) Based on her education.
(b) More like a man's.
(c) Free from the trends of tradition.
(d) Not as restrictive as her mother's.

3. According to Marx, what causes historical change?
(a) Material and economic factors.
(b) Failing of political leaders.
(c) Educated masses.
(d) Uprising of the poor.

4. What are the elves, dwarves and other creatures celebrating when Sophie and Alberto meet them?
(a) Christmas.
(b) Mid Summer Eve.
(c) Thanksgiving.
(d) Valentine's Day.

5. What does Freud develop?
(a) Dissolution.
(b) Cytology.
(c) Psychoanalysis.
(d) Morphology.

6. After philosophers who are rationalists, what is the shift toward?
(a) Empiricism.
(b) Romanticism.
(c) Puritanism.
(d) Transcendentalism.

7. What is Marx's solution to the society's impending collapse?
(a) A classless society.
(b) Democracy.
(c) A czar as leader.
(d) A monarchy.

8. What change happens after Sophie's mother introduces Alberto to the gathering at the garden party?
(a) The party starts to get wild.
(b) They all leave because they know they aren't real.
(c) Everyone becomes scared and goes home.
(d) Alberto crashes the party.

9. What is Hilde planning to do to rebel against her father?
(a) Run away from home.
(b) Drop out of school.
(c) Play tricks on him.
(d) Attend Sophie's party.

10. What is the role of a philosopher, according to Hegel?
(a) To teach those that are discouraged.
(b) To feed and clothe those in need.
(c) To question all that come to him.
(d) To be the mirror that reflects the ideas of his or her own time.

11. How does Sophie feel about Berkeley's theory?
(a) She adopts it as her own.
(b) Unsure.
(c) That it is stupid.
(d) She finds it mystifying.

12. What is Berkeley's theory toward perceptions?
(a) God should guide us, not perceptions.
(b) He doubts them all.
(c) All people should only trust their own.
(d) They don't really exist.

13. How does Alberto plan to escape the Major's story?
(a) Between the lines of the book.
(b) By leaving Sophie behind.
(c) Alberto abandons this idea.
(d) With bribery and trickery.

14. What trails the plane that Alberto and Sophie see?
(a) A banner saying "Happy Birthday, Hilde."
(b) Another plane.
(c) Black smoke.
(d) A skydiver.

15. After Sophie's lesson on Berkeley, whom does she run into on her way home?
(a) Her mother.
(b) The Major.
(c) Hermes.
(d) Hilde.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hilde realize about Alberto's plan to escape?

2. What does Hegel describe as progress?

3. As the garden party ends, what do Sophie and Alberto do?

4. What is Darwin's theory that is included in "the Origin of the Species"?

5. What is the individual's role in the Enlightenment philosophy?

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