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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 does Sophie do with the physical philosophy lessons?
(a) Buries them in her den.
(b) Arranges the pages in a ring binder.
(c) Files them in her dresser.
(d) Burns them.

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

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

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

5. What does Empedocles believe plays a role in bringing things together?
(a) Technology.
(b) Health.
(c) Love.
(d) Communication.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Baroque period known for?

2. Where does Sophie live?

3. In a Baroque work by Holberg, what question is posed?

4. How does Empedocles try to organize the world?

5. How does Plato use math and geometry?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are some of the increasingly odd connections between Sophie and HIlde? What do they mean?

3. Does nature constrain human's free will like Spinoza believed? How?

4. Do people today, as the Greeks did, believe in fate or predestination? What are examples?

5. Is Sophie's mother's reaction to her daughter's studies and new attitude realistic? Why?

6. Why does Sophie decide to go into a stranger's cabin?

7. Epicureans believe in seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. Is this a theme of the novel? Why?

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

9. What kind of teacher is Alberto? Why?

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

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