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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 Alberto tell Sophie concerning new philosophers?
(a) They are more advanced than previous philosophers.
(b) He is unfamiliar with them and can't teach them.
(c) Readers must struggle to find their deeper meanings.
(d) They are totally useless.

2. What does Hilde realize about Alberto's plan to escape?
(a) The Major will ruin his plan.
(b) Her father typed Alberto's words.
(c) She can help him.
(d) Sophie will be a burden to him.

3. What does Freud develop?
(a) Morphology.
(b) Psychoanalysis.
(c) Cytology.
(d) Dissolution.

4. According to Alberto, the Romantic Movement tends to degenerate into what?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) A conservative and introverted movement.
(c) The hippie counter-culture in the early 1800s.
(d) Nothingness.

5. For what are Alberto and Sophie going to use practical reason?
(a) To escape.
(b) To meet the Philosophers.
(c) To trick Hilde.
(d) To earn money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What situation does Alberto apply Hume's argument to?

2. What have the birds on the Galapagos Islands developed?

3. What change happens after Sophie's mother introduces Alberto to the gathering at the garden party?

4. What does Kierkegaard accuse Hegel of doing?

5. What do surrealists say about art?

Short Essay Questions

1. Freud analyzes dreams. What sort of dreams do people analyze today? Why would people want to analyze their dreams?

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

3. Was the point of view change in the story effective? Why?

4. Why do the Ingebrightsens become upset with Alberto's speech?

5. Do you agree with Hegel that philosophers should be mirrors that reflect ideas of their time? Why?

6. Sartre believes that freedom is a sort of curse, because freedom forces Man to make choices without guidelines. Is this applicable to Sophie's life? How?

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

8. How does Freud relate to the theme "bravery" of this novel?

9. 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?

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

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