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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. When is Hilde's dad supposed to arrive home?
(a) Christmas.
(b) Never.
(c) The start of school.
(d) Mid-Summer Eve.

2. How does Alberto plan to escape the Major's story?
(a) With bribery and trickery.
(b) Between the lines of the book.
(c) By leaving Sophie behind.
(d) Alberto abandons this idea.

3. Why is it important the Major may not know the real meaning of his unconscious thoughts and desires?
(a) That allows him to do well at his job.
(b) That makes him susceptible to a writing error.
(c) That makes Hilde able to lie to him.
(d) That gives Alberto and Sophie a chance to escape.

4. What best describes Romantic novels?
(a) Conservative yet precocious.
(b) Dignified and reserved.
(c) Dreamy and remote.
(d) Loud and obnoxious.

5. What does Alice bring Sophie during the Kierkegaard lesson?
(a) Seeds.
(b) A cake.
(c) Books.
(d) A drink.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aladdin bring when he visits Alberto and Sophie?

2. What does Hilde realize about Alberto's plan to escape?

3. What is the conflict of Marx's day?

4. When Hilde looks in the brass mirror, what does she see?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Marx saw problems where workers did not control their workspaces. Is this true today, or is it only applicable during Marx's time? Can you think of an example?

6. Was it odd when Sophie met Alice in Wonderland and Winnie the Pooh? Why or why not?

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

9. 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?

10. What is the importance of the party becoming the theater of the absurd?

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