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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 note say inside Sophie's second envelope?
(a) What should your life be?
(b) Where does the earth come from?
(c) How will you help Earth today?
(d) Why are we here?

2. What does Sophie see on the inside of a banana peel?
(a) Bugs crawling everywhere.
(b) Birthday wishes from Albert Knag to Hilde.
(c) Directions to her house.
(d) Mold.

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

4. During the Renaissance, what did philosophers believe?
(a) Man wants to please God.
(b) Man needs to worship multiple Gods.
(c) Man was created in the image of the Creator.
(d) Man is smarter than God.

5. How does Plato use math and geometry?
(a) To gain money.
(b) To build houses.
(c) To aid him in obtaining true knowledge.
(d) To teach others less fortunate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Sophie live?

2. What is a sign of Europe's renewed progress in the 1200s?

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

4. What does Sophie find in the woods on her search for the philosopher?

5. What do the big brown envelopes that arrive for Sophie contain?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What kind of teacher is Alberto? Why?

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

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

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

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

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

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