View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The second time Sophie goes to the Major's cabin, what does Sophie find?
(a) Money.
(b) Alberto.
(c) Postcards addressed to Hilde.
(d) Her coat.

2. Politically, what is the Baroque period characterized with?
(a) Peace and equality.
(b) Assassinations and revolts.
(c) Anger and ignorance.
(d) Waste and vulgarity.

3. What do the Arabs develop in the 1200s?
(a) Early recording systems.
(b) Moving pictures.
(c) Science.
(d) Writing.

4. What does the doll that Alberto shows Sophie symbolize?
(a) The courageousness of parents.
(b) Youth.
(c) Death.
(d) The fleetingness of life.

5. When Sophie confides in Alberto about her discovery after her dream, how does Alberto react?
(a) He says nothing.
(b) He cries.
(c) He slams a door.
(d) He says it is a cheap trick.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a Baroque work by Holberg, what question is posed?

2. What do philosophers keep that babies have and adults lose?

3. What does Sophie's mother think of the letters she receives?

4. Sophie dreams about Hilde's golden crucifix and then wakes to be startled by what?

5. What does Sophie find in her room with the name "Hilde" written on it?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it important that Sophie designed her own myth?

2. Why does Alberto dress in costume to reflect his teachings? Does this enhance his lessons?

3. Why does Sophie decide to go into a stranger's cabin?

4. What is an example of the Indo-European view of history concerning cycles of history that start over again?

5. How are Hilde and the Major connected to Sophie, as known by Chapter 13? Why?

6. When Sophie sees another girl in mirror who winks back at her with both eyes, what does this foreshadow?

7. Sophie recalls that time is different for the Major and HIlde, than for Sophie and Alberto. How would this exist?

8. Does nature constrain human's free will like Spinoza believed? How?

9. Why would Sophie not go with Joanna after classes?

10. What are some of the increasingly odd connections between Sophie and HIlde? What do they mean?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 823 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample