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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. According to Alberto, what happens to Romantics when they reach the age of 30?
(a) They move to another country.
(b) They begin revisiting their early life dreams.
(c) They return to school in search of a new career.
(d) They often either die of despair or disease, or become very conservative.

5. Where are Sophie and Alberto after their adventures in the binder end?
(a) South Africa.
(b) Somewhere in Oslo.
(c) Oklahoma.
(d) In a bookstore.

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

7. What do Joanna and Jeremy do at the garden party?
(a) Drive away.
(b) Wreck the Corvette.
(c) Kiss passionately.
(d) Steal Sophie's Barbie doll.

8. Why does the point of view switch to Hilde?
(a) The Major neglected Hilde's point of view.
(b) Hilde really exists.
(c) Sophie died.
(d) Alberto needs to teach Sophie full time.

9. What does Hilde realize about Alberto's plan to escape?
(a) Her father typed Alberto's words.
(b) The Major will ruin his plan.
(c) She can help him.
(d) Sophie will be a burden to him.

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

12. What is an example of negative results of natural selection?
(a) Rabid dogs.
(b) The overuse of antibiotics.
(c) Hyperactive children.
(d) The theft of DNA.

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

14. Whom does Sophie meet in her travels?
(a) Diego and Dora.
(b) Mighty Mouse.
(c) Alice in Wonderland and Winnie the Pooh.
(d) Bert and Ernie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hilde's birthday present from her father?

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

3. When Sophie climbs a tree, who rescues her from it?

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

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

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