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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 HMS Beagle?
(a) The car at Sophie's party.
(b) The type of dog Hermes is.
(c) The exit that the Major takes at the airport.
(d) A ship Darwin takes to South America.

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. When Hilde looks in the brass mirror, what does she see?
(a) The Major.
(b) The reflection blinking at her with both eyes.
(c) Her entire family.
(d) Herself, only bald.

4. What does Hilde's mother admit to Hilde concerning a belonging?
(a) She told the Major about Hilde's missing crucifix.
(b) She took the crucifix to trick Hilde.
(c) She removed the mirror from the house.
(d) She moved the scarf into a different room.

5. On June 14th, what does Hermes say?
(a) "Leave Sophie alone."
(b) "Come home, Major."
(c) "Joanna, go away!"
(d) "Happy Birthday, Hilde."

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Sophie and Alberto's lives like after their adventures in the binder end?

2. According to Hegel, how does constant change come about?

3. Why does the point of view switch to Hilde?

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

5. Simone de Beauvoir in her book "The Second Sex" states that women can choose an identity that is what?

Short Essay Questions

1. The ideal of the romantics is for complete originality. Does our culture still value that ideal today? How?

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

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

6. Why does Sophie become shocked when she sees "Sophie's World" on a bookshelf?

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

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

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

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

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