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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the devil say about Faust's life?
(a) Faust didn't live fully.
(b) It was just as God planned.
(c) It was totally meaningless.
(d) Faust lived as he wanted.

2. How does Hilde feel about Sophie?
(a) Hilde is angry with Sophie.
(b) Hilde feels sorry for Sophie.
(c) Hilde is jealous of Sophie.
(d) Hilde dislikes Sophie.

3. What is practical reason, according to Kant?
(a) God's trust in youth.
(b) The desire to cooperate.
(c) The devil at play.
(d) A degree of free will.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. What do surrealists say about art?
(a) It is unnecessary for people to make art.
(b) It must appeal to a select group.
(c) Its effectiveness determines its value.
(d) It should be a blend of the conscious and the unconscious mind.

12. Why does Sophie become anxious while waiting for Alberto at a French cafe?
(a) Alberto is 20 minutes late.
(b) Sophie doesn't have any money.
(c) Alberto threatened to run away.
(d) Sophie fears the Major took Alberto away.

13. What does Hegel describe as progress?
(a) When charity and goodwill become natural aspects of a culture.
(b) The constant changing of ideas, values and ethics.
(c) When the distribution of wealth becomes more equal.
(d) The acknowledgement of mind over spirit.

14. Where does Berkeley think all of our ideas originate?
(a) Parents and elders.
(b) Traditions and customs.
(c) Everything comes from God.
(d) Our political leaders.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Darwin begins his studies, how is he best described?

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

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

4. What happens to the Ingebrigtsens' Mercedes?

5. How does Kant explain the place of faith in people's lives?

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