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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an example of negative results of natural selection?
(a) The overuse of antibiotics.
(b) Rabid dogs.
(c) The theft of DNA.
(d) Hyperactive children.

2. How does Alberto plan to escape the Major's story?
(a) Alberto abandons this idea.
(b) Between the lines of the book.
(c) With bribery and trickery.
(d) By leaving Sophie behind.

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

4. What happens to the Ingebrigtsens' Mercedes?
(a) Keyed.
(b) Wrecked.
(c) Stolen.
(d) Runs out of gas.

5. After philosophers who are rationalists, what is the shift toward?
(a) Romanticism.
(b) Empiricism.
(c) Puritanism.
(d) Transcendentalism.

6. What change happens after Sophie's mother introduces Alberto to the gathering at the garden party?
(a) Alberto crashes the party.
(b) They all leave because they know they aren't real.
(c) The party starts to get wild.
(d) Everyone becomes scared and goes home.

7. What is Hilde's birthday present from her father?
(a) A diamond necklace.
(b) A ring binder with the typed text of a book.
(c) Embroidered scarves.
(d) An ivory jewelry box.

8. What does Freud develop?
(a) Dissolution.
(b) Cytology.
(c) Morphology.
(d) Psychoanalysis.

9. What angers Hilde concerning the passage, "We are a living planet, Sophie"?
(a) Hilde originally said that quote.
(b) Hilde disagrees with the passage.
(c) The Major first said that to Hilde.
(d) Sophie monopolizes her father's time.

10. Where does "Sophie's World" exist?
(a) New York.
(b) Paris.
(c) A material world outside of human consciousness.
(d) An imaginary planet.

11. What is Marx's solution to the society's impending collapse?
(a) A classless society.
(b) Democracy.
(c) A czar as leader.
(d) A monarchy.

12. What religion does Hume associate with?
(a) Atheism.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Agnosticism.
(d) Christianity.

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

14. What does Hilde agree with Alberto about concerning her father's treatment of the characters?
(a) His career takes precedence over everything.
(b) He is dangerous.
(c) He is too manipulating.
(d) His demeanor is snobbish.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is it important the Major may not know the real meaning of his unconscious thoughts and desires?

3. Where does Hilde discover her father will be when she seeks revenge?

4. What is Darwin's theory that is included in "the Origin of the Species"?

5. According to Alberto, the Romantic Movement tends to degenerate into what?

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