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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, the Baroque.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When do white envelopes arrive for Sophie?
(a) In the morning.
(b) During school hours.
(c) Midnight.
(d) During her nap time.

2. According to Anaxagoras, what are seeds?
(a) Infinitely divisible particles.
(b) Grass and food for humans.
(c) The young of a group.
(d) Potential of ideas.

3. Sophie dreams about Hilde's golden crucifix and then wakes to be startled by what?
(a) Alberto in his dress.
(b) Hermes standing over her.
(c) Joanna's board game on her bed.
(d) Hilde's crucifix under her pillow.

4. How does Sophie feel toward drug use?
(a) Drugs make people duller.
(b) Drugs increase awareness.
(c) Drugs provide new opportunities.
(d) Drugs kill brain cells.

5. What does Sophie find in the woods on her search for the philosopher?
(a) Philosophy lecture notes.
(b) Notes and a map.
(c) A lake and a rowboat.
(d) A talking squirrel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sophie take from the Major's cabin?

2. What does Joanna say human beings are like?

3. What does the doll that Alberto shows Sophie symbolize?

4. Philosophically, how are the Indians and Greeks connected?

5. According to the top hat metaphor, what are philosophers?

(see the answer key)

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