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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 have the birds on the Galapagos Islands developed?
(a) Slight, but distinct differences.
(b) Diseases that transfer to humans.
(c) Ways to escape captivity.
(d) Dangerous and mean fighting strategies.

2. According to Hegel, what is human progress?
(a) When customs fall and nature takes hold.
(b) When truth continues to change.
(c) When more evil dissipates.
(d) When education becomes more widespread.

3. What angers Alberto at the Cinderella Cafe?
(a) He cannot make the coffee dispenser work.
(b) His money is the wrong kind.
(c) He cannot be seen and people walk on him.
(d) Sophie won't stop pestering him.

4. Simone de Beauvoir in her book "The Second Sex" states that women can choose an identity that is what?
(a) Free from the trends of tradition.
(b) Based on her education.
(c) More like a man's.
(d) Not as restrictive as her mother's.

5. How does Hilde feel about Alberto and Hilde trying to escape?
(a) She wants to stop them.
(b) She is angry and furious.
(c) She wants to aid them.
(d) She is unconcerned.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the garden party ends, what do Sophie and Alberto do?

2. What trails the plane that Alberto and Sophie see?

3. What does Hilde agree with Alberto about concerning her father's treatment of the characters?

4. How does Sophie feel about Berkeley's theory?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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