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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the big brown envelopes that arrive for Sophie contain?
(a) Black and white pictures.
(b) Course material.
(c) Postcards.
(d) Videos.

2. During the Renaissance, what did philosophers believe?
(a) Man wants to please God.
(b) Man is smarter than God.
(c) Man was created in the image of the Creator.
(d) Man needs to worship multiple Gods.

3. What is 'Plato's Dialogues'?
(a) A form of debate.
(b) Lectures that Alberto follows.
(c) Plato writing down the words of Socrates.
(d) A one-man play about philosophy.

4. What does Sophie take from the Major's cabin?
(a) A scarf.
(b) Paddles and lifesavers.
(c) A book.
(d) An envelope addressed to her.

5. What does the introductory letter to Philosophy say?
(a) It proposes many questions.
(b) It simply has a phone number and address.
(c) It lists several books for Sophie to read before her next lesson.
(d) It gives a calendar of the course.

Short Answer Questions

1. What cultures comprise the Hellenism period?

2. What is the Greeks' criticism of Nordic Gods?

3. When Sophie is in the Major's cabin, what reflects back at her from the mirror?

4. What does Sophie find in the regular mail as the story opens?

5. Ancient people used myths to explain what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What would be an example of Parmenides' beliefs in Sophie's life?

2. How are Hilde and the Major connected to Sophie, as known by Chapter 13? Why?

3. Sophie recalls that time is different for the Major and HIlde, than for Sophie and Alberto. How would this exist?

4. Sophie receives mail addressed to Hilde. Is she silly or foolish for opening this mail? Why?

5. Why would Sophie's banana have a birthday greeting on the inside?

6. Why is it important that Sophie designed her own myth?

7. Why would Hermes growl at Sophie when she follows him? Is this characteristic of a dog? Why?

8. Holberg's play poses the question 'How does a person know which is reality and which is a dream'? What does this foreshadow in relation to Sophie?

9. What is Sophie's den symbolic of? How?

10. Socrates could have escaped death through exile, but refused. What does this act say about his character?

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