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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Kant explain the place of faith in people's lives?
(a) Faith reaches those in pain.
(b) Faith provides laws and guidelines for new cultures.
(c) Faith fills a space where reason and perception fail.
(d) Faith has a place where ignorance is.

2. When Sophie climbs a tree, who rescues her from it?
(a) Mrs. Ingebrigtsen.
(b) Her cat.
(c) A fireman.
(d) The magical goose.

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

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

5. Why does Sophie laugh at the Emperor?
(a) He is naked.
(b) His ideas a ludicrous.
(c) His head is shaved.
(d) He is wearing Alberto's clothes.

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

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

8. According to Alberto, the Romantic Movement tends to degenerate into what?
(a) The hippie counter-culture in the early 1800s.
(b) A conservative and introverted movement.
(c) Nothingness.
(d) All answers are correct.

9. To Sartre, what is existentialism?
(a) Man creates himself and his values.
(b) A path to leaving all danger.
(c) The belief that love does not exist.
(d) Putting others ahead of yourself.

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

11. What does Kant see as a key part of man's sense perceptions?
(a) Food and sunlight.
(b) Time and space.
(c) Origin and development.
(d) Traditions and knowledge.

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

13. For what are Alberto and Sophie going to use practical reason?
(a) To meet the Philosophers.
(b) To escape.
(c) To trick Hilde.
(d) To earn money.

14. What does Alice bring Sophie during the Kierkegaard lesson?
(a) A drink.
(b) A cake.
(c) Books.
(d) Seeds.

15. As the Major travels home, what sign does he read?
(a) "Why did you hurt my feelings?"
(b) "I can see you, Dad!"
(c) "I wish you would come home."
(d) "Where did you put Sophie?"

Short Answer Questions

1. What angers Alberto at the Cinderella Cafe?

2. How does Alberto plan to escape the Major's story?

3. What does Kierkegaard accuse Hegel of doing?

4. Where does Hume believe human ethics come from?

5. What does Freud develop?

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