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

2. How does Sophie's mother behave concerning Sophie's new interests?
(a) She is jealous Sophie doesn't spend extra time with her.
(b) She likes that Sophie is expanding her views.
(c) She is vaguely troubled.
(d) She doesn't notice Sophie's new interests.

3. When do white envelopes arrive for Sophie?
(a) In the morning.
(b) Midnight.
(c) During school hours.
(d) During her nap time.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the only other being Sophie takes to her den with her?

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

3. How is Alberto dressed when Sophie meets him at the church?

4. What does Plato believe is immortal?

5. What lesson with the topic of Plato and Socrates is presented?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What kind of teacher is Alberto? Why?

7. Sophie immediately thinks about the first question, "Who are you?" How does this indirectly characterize her?

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

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

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

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