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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 is the individual's role in the Enlightenment philosophy?
(a) To question nothing.
(b) To question authority.
(c) To ponder life's struggles.
(d) To ponder existence.

2. What do surrealists say about art?
(a) Its effectiveness determines its value.
(b) It should be a blend of the conscious and the unconscious mind.
(c) It is unnecessary for people to make art.
(d) It must appeal to a select group.

3. What is Darwin's theory that is included in "the Origin of the Species"?
(a) Evil forces challenge God's plans.
(b) Natural selection through survival of the fittest.
(c) God providing all species with survival skills.
(d) Safety necessitates laws.

4. Why does Sophie laugh at the Emperor?
(a) He is wearing Alberto's clothes.
(b) His ideas a ludicrous.
(c) His head is shaved.
(d) He is naked.

5. What is the conflict of Marx's day?
(a) Religious leaders against citizens.
(b) Russia against the world.
(c) Workers against factory owners.
(d) Children against parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hilde agree with Alberto about concerning her father's treatment of the characters?

2. When Darwin begins his studies, how is he best described?

3. What angers Alberto at the Cinderella Cafe?

4. What does Hume say people's feelings are not based on?

5. After philosophers who are rationalists, what is the shift toward?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Hilde get angry when her father orders her to finish the book before his return?

2. Does Marx's idea of a classless society sound appealing? Why?

3. To Hegel, truth is not a set thing, but something that changes. What do you think of this theory? Why?

4. Why is it ironic that Sophie thinks Berkeley's theory is stupid?

5. Why does the old woman take Sophie and Alberto to the storybook character's camp?

6. Do you think the Major and Hilde are characters within a book, like a dream within a dream within a dream? Why?

7. English philosophers think that Man is like a blank blackboard and ready to take in data collected by the senses. Does this apply to Sophie's philosophical lessons? How?

8. How does Hilde regard Sophie in the Bjerkely chapter? Why does she feel this way?

9. Were you confused by Darwin's theory at all? Explain how you were or weren't.

10. Kant looked at the individual's perception as most important. How is this theory applicable to Sophie?

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