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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 philosophers keep that babies have and adults lose?
(a) Their sense of wonder.
(b) The ability to rest.
(c) Trust.
(d) Their hunger.

2. What does Sophie's mother think of the letters she receives?
(a) They are from a different country.
(b) They are codes.
(c) They are love letters.
(d) She does not know about Sophie's letters.

3. What is the Baroque period known for?
(a) War and famine.
(b) Closed houses of worship.
(c) Education and wealth.
(d) Magnificent palaces and monasteries.

4. What does Jesus say that he wants to bring to the whole world?
(a) Salvation and atonement.
(b) Trial and confusion.
(c) Trust and hope.
(d) Good will and peace.

5. When Alberto shows Sophie a computer, how does Major Albert Knag appear?
(a) In a video.
(b) As a data virus.
(c) As a journal entry.
(d) As a bank withdrawal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Descartes' philosophy ask?

2. What does the note say inside Sophie's second envelope?

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

4. Who designed the first Academy?

5. What is Spinoza's philosophy?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Characterize Sophie's religion teacher when she questioned Sophie's answers on a test.

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

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

10. When Sophie sees another girl in mirror who winks back at her with both eyes, what does this foreshadow?

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