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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does Hume believe human ethics come from?
2. What information does Hilde find in the encyclopedia about George Berkeley?
3. What is the role of a philosopher, according to Hegel?
4. Why does Sophie laugh at the Emperor?
5. What does Kant concern himself with?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Sophie become shocked when she sees "Sophie's World" on a bookshelf?
2. Were you confused by Darwin's theory at all? Explain how you were or weren't.
3. Why does the old woman take Sophie and Alberto to the storybook character's camp?
4. Was the point of view change in the story effective? Why?
5. 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?
6. How does Freud relate to the theme "bravery" of this novel?
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. The ideal of the romantics is for complete originality. Does our culture still value that ideal today? How?
9. Do you think the Major and Hilde are characters within a book, like a dream within a dream within a dream? Why?
10. Does Marx's idea of a classless society sound appealing? Why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The overlap of philosophy and religion in the book is a common debate in our culture. How great is the overlap in the book? Does Sophie react to this debate? Is her reaction realistic? Why?
1) Include at least three solid examples to explain how these topics overlap.
2) Comment on Sophie's reaction to this overlap. Is her reaction to the specific examples realistic?
Essay Topic 2
Evaluate all of the narrators. Which narrator do you prefer? Why?
Essay Topic 3
Look at the chapter titles. The first title is "The Garden of Eden." Why would Gaarder begin his novel this way? Some of the titles are simplistic, such as the names of philosophers. Others have more meaning. Analyze these titles and relate them to the deeper meaning presented in the corresponding chapter.
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