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

2. What is the role of a philosopher, according to Hegel?
(a) To teach those that are discouraged.
(b) To question all that come to him.
(c) To feed and clothe those in need.
(d) To be the mirror that reflects the ideas of his or her own time.

3. What does Hume say people's feelings are not based on?
(a) Experience.
(b) Tradition.
(c) Reason.
(d) History.

4. Hegel states that prior philosophies search for what?
(a) Desires.
(b) Needs.
(c) Hope.
(d) Universals.

5. How does Kant explain the place of faith in people's lives?
(a) Faith fills a space where reason and perception fail.
(b) Faith provides laws and guidelines for new cultures.
(c) Faith has a place where ignorance is.
(d) Faith reaches those in pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do surrealists say about art?

2. During the Romantic era, what could dramas be written about?

3. What is Berkeley's theory toward perceptions?

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

5. What is the individual's role in the Enlightenment philosophy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it ironic that Sophie thinks Berkeley's theory is stupid?

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

3. Why do the Ingebrightsens become upset with Alberto's speech?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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