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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. Where do Sophie and Joanna camp?
(a) The Grouse top.
(b) The lake house.
(c) Joanna's backyard.
(d) Their school's playground.

2. How does Sophie answer the questions on her religious knowledge exam?
(a) She refuses to answer such mundane questions.
(b) She recites material from her religious text.
(c) She uses her philosophical knowledge.
(d) She makes up answers.

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

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

5. What is Albert Knag's occupation?
(a) A Norwegian Major in the U.N. Forces.
(b) A General in the U.S. Air Force.
(c) A mechanical engineer.
(d) A Certified Public Accountant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Empedocles believe plays a role in bringing things together?

2. What do the Arabs develop in the 1200s?

3. How does Empedocles try to organize the world?

4. What grade does the teacher give Sophie on her religious knowledge test?

5. What comprises Sophie's myth?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What kind of teacher is Alberto? Why?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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