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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Aladdin bring when he visits Alberto and Sophie?
(a) A pitchfork and saw.
(b) His genie.
(c) His wand and potion.
(d) A pot of gold.

3. What does Kierkegaard accuse Hegel of doing?
(a) Abandoning thoughts of the individual.
(b) Stealing from the wealthy.
(c) Using the ignorance of the mass to his advantage.
(d) Conforming to society's standards.

4. 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.

5. What angers Hilde concerning the passage, "We are a living planet, Sophie"?
(a) The Major first said that to Hilde.
(b) Hilde disagrees with the passage.
(c) Hilde originally said that quote.
(d) Sophie monopolizes her father's time.

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

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

8. What happens to the Ingebrigtsens' Mercedes?
(a) Stolen.
(b) Keyed.
(c) Runs out of gas.
(d) Wrecked.

9. What have the birds on the Galapagos Islands developed?
(a) Dangerous and mean fighting strategies.
(b) Diseases that transfer to humans.
(c) Ways to escape captivity.
(d) Slight, but distinct differences.

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

11. When is Hilde's dad supposed to arrive home?
(a) Never.
(b) Christmas.
(c) Mid-Summer Eve.
(d) The start of school.

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

13. What does Hilde think of Sophie and Alberto?
(a) They are just as real as she.
(b) They exist on some level.
(c) They manipulate her.
(d) They were never real.

14. Why is it important the Major may not know the real meaning of his unconscious thoughts and desires?
(a) That makes him susceptible to a writing error.
(b) That allows him to do well at his job.
(c) That gives Alberto and Sophie a chance to escape.
(d) That makes Hilde able to lie to him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hilde's father order her to do?

2. Where does Hume believe human ethics come from?

3. During the Romantic era, what could dramas be written about?

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

5. According to Alberto, what happens to Romantics when they reach the age of 30?

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