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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What best describes Romantic novels?
(a) Loud and obnoxious.
(b) Conservative yet precocious.
(c) Dreamy and remote.
(d) Dignified and reserved.

2. What does Kierkegaard's philosophy emphasize?
(a) Individuality.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Conformity.
(d) Largess.

3. How does Hilde feel about Alberto and Hilde trying to escape?
(a) She wants to aid them.
(b) She wants to stop them.
(c) She is angry and furious.
(d) She is unconcerned.

4. When Hilde looks in the brass mirror, what does she see?
(a) Her entire family.
(b) The Major.
(c) The reflection blinking at her with both eyes.
(d) Herself, only bald.

5. As the garden party ends, what do Sophie and Alberto do?
(a) Find the ringed binder.
(b) Get a boat.
(c) Run to the cabin.
(d) Drive to the Cathedral.

6. According to Freud, why do women suffer from various neuroses?
(a) Women feel they cannot meet the expectations of their peers and spouses.
(b) Women have more duties than others.
(c) Women have an image and they strive to meet it.
(d) Women often suppress their desires because they feel guilty.

7. Where does Hume believe human ethics come from?
(a) Gods and religious leaders.
(b) Sentiments and customs.
(c) Reasons and logic.
(d) Stories of the oral tradition.

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

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

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

11. What are Sophie and Alberto's lives like after their adventures in the binder end?
(a) They see people, but the people cannot see or hear them.
(b) They retreat to the cabin.
(c) They travel the world.
(d) They disappear.

12. What does Hilde's mother admit to Hilde concerning a belonging?
(a) She told the Major about Hilde's missing crucifix.
(b) She removed the mirror from the house.
(c) She took the crucifix to trick Hilde.
(d) She moved the scarf into a different room.

13. What upsets Sophie after she hears the lesson on Berkeley?
(a) She knows she will die soon.
(b) She learns about her father's death.
(c) She sees that Hilde is taking over her life.
(d) She knows she and Alberto exist in the mind of the Major.

14. Where does "Sophie's World" exist?
(a) Paris.
(b) A material world outside of human consciousness.
(c) New York.
(d) An imaginary planet.

15. What does Hume say people's feelings are not based on?
(a) Experience.
(b) Tradition.
(c) Reason.
(d) History.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aladdin bring when he visits Alberto and Sophie?

2. Why is it funny that Mrs. Ingebrigtsen gives Sophie a Barbie doll?

3. Why is it important the Major may not know the real meaning of his unconscious thoughts and desires?

4. What does Hegel describe as progress?

5. What information does Hilde find in the encyclopedia about George Berkeley?

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