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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. When Sophie follows Hermes, how does the dog react?
(a) Runs very fast.
(b) Growls and escapes.
(c) Fakes sleep.
(d) Licks her.

2. What cultures comprise the Hellenism period?
(a) American and Greek.
(b) Greek and Asian.
(c) European and South American.
(d) African and Asian.

3. Who are the Sophists?
(a) Teachers competing for Alberto's job.
(b) Men who charge for philosophical lessons.
(c) People related to Sophie.
(d) Gods Alberto lectures about.

4. What does Sophie build with Legos?
(a) A house.
(b) A shopping mall.
(c) Car decks.
(d) Cathedrals.

5. Sophie dreams about Hilde's golden crucifix and then wakes to be startled by what?
(a) Joanna's board game on her bed.
(b) Hilde's crucifix under her pillow.
(c) Alberto in his dress.
(d) Hermes standing over her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Plato use math and geometry?

2. What does Sophie's mother think of the letters she receives?

3. What describes Thomas Hobbes' philosophy?

4. What guise does Sophie arrange so she can meet Alberto in person?

5. What question does Sophie ask herself as she looks in the mirror after she reads her first note?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What did Sophie learn from working with Legos in connection to Democritus?

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

7. When Sophie sees the large board with the word "Hilde" on it, does this foreshadow who "Hilde' is?

8. What is an example of the Indo-European view of history concerning cycles of history that start over again?

9. What kind of teacher is Alberto? Why?

10. 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?

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