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

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

3. What is Hilde planning to do to rebel against her father?
(a) Play tricks on him.
(b) Run away from home.
(c) Drop out of school.
(d) Attend Sophie's party.

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

5. What upsets Sophie after she hears the lesson on Berkeley?
(a) She knows she will die soon.
(b) She sees that Hilde is taking over her life.
(c) She knows she and Alberto exist in the mind of the Major.
(d) She learns about her father's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Berkeley's theory toward perceptions?

2. When is Hilde's dad supposed to arrive home?

3. As the Major travels home, what sign does he read?

4. Hegel states that prior philosophies search for what?

5. What best describes Romantic novels?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Kierkegaard coined the slogan, "Question Authority." Write about two instances where you have seen this slogan used in our culture.

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

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

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

7. Hilde still believes that Sophie and Alberto exist on some level. What is the author's attitude toward the subject? Why?

8. What is the author's tone toward Sophie and her mother in the Berkley chapter? Why?

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

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

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