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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) Postcards.
(b) Black and white pictures.
(c) Videos.
(d) Course material.

2. How often does Sophie see her father?
(a) Every night at dinner.
(b) He is away most of the time.
(c) He is only gone a few weeks out of the year.
(d) The last Friday of each month.

3. How is Alberto dressed when Sophie meets him at the church?
(a) In regular street clothes.
(b) In a tux.
(c) He is naked.
(d) Like a monk.

4. What does Sophie find in the regular mail as the story opens?
(a) A letter from Joanna.
(b) An empty box.
(c) A letter addressed to Hilde Knag.
(d) A love letter.

5. When Sophie confides in Alberto about her discovery after her dream, how does Alberto react?
(a) He cries.
(b) He slams a door.
(c) He says it is a cheap trick.
(d) He says nothing.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the teacher's thoughts concerning Sophie's religious exam?

3. When Sophie follows Hermes, how does the dog react?

4. What question does Aquinas pose concerning inanimate objects, animals, man and angels?

5. Politically, what is the Baroque period characterized with?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Alberto dress in costume to reflect his teachings? Does this enhance his lessons?

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

3. Why does Sophie continue to do this homework, even though it is not required of her?

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

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

6. Why would ancient people make up such elaborate stories to explain how their world works?

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

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

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