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

2. Where does Hume believe human ethics come from?
(a) Gods and religious leaders.
(b) Sentiments and customs.
(c) Reasons and logic.
(d) Stories of the oral tradition.

3. During the Romantic era, what could dramas be written about?
(a) Teenagers and the pain they suffer while dating.
(b) Odd couples becoming popular.
(c) Something ordinarily seen as absurd.
(d) Love gone bad.

4. According to Alberto, what happens to Romantics when they reach the age of 30?
(a) They return to school in search of a new career.
(b) They often either die of despair or disease, or become very conservative.
(c) They move to another country.
(d) They begin revisiting their early life dreams.

5. Where does "Sophie's World" exist?
(a) Paris.
(b) New York.
(c) An imaginary planet.
(d) A material world outside of human consciousness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Marx's solution to the society's impending collapse?

2. What does Freud develop?

3. To Sartre, what is existentialism?

4. What does Hilde think of Sophie and Alberto?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Are Hilde's plans for her father well designed? Why?

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

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

7. In the Enlightenment period, there is an impulse toward mass education and cultural optimism. Do you see any traces of these beliefs in our culture today? How?

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

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

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

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