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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 the doll that Alberto shows Sophie symbolize?
(a) The fleetingness of life.
(b) Youth.
(c) Death.
(d) The courageousness of parents.

2. Where does Sophie live?
(a) In the middle of town.
(b) A shady duplex.
(c) On the edge of the woods.
(d) A tall apartment complex.

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

4. After Sophie returns home from meeting Alberto, what does she see in the mirror?
(a) Her mother and grandmother.
(b) Two girls, face to face.
(c) Her reflection, with another girl behind.
(d) The Major and Hilde.

5. What question does Sophie ask herself as she looks in the mirror after she reads her first note?
(a) Would she be a different person if she had a different name?
(b) Where should she go next?
(c) Would her parents love her if she was a boy?
(d) Why was she placed here?

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Plato believe is immortal?

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

4. What does Sophie do with the physical philosophy lessons?

5. How does Plato use math and geometry?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What kind of teacher is Alberto? Why?

5. Why would Sophie not go with Joanna after classes?

6. Why were ancient people angry when they spoke to Socrates and he claimed not to know anything?

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

8. Why does Sophie's mother handle her daughter's relationship with Alberto so calmly?

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

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

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