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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. What do the big brown envelopes that arrive for Sophie contain?
(a) Videos.
(b) Postcards.
(c) Course material.
(d) Black and white pictures.

2. Who designed the first Academy?
(a) Jesus.
(b) Freud.
(c) Plato.
(d) Socrates.

3. According to the top hat metaphor, what are philosophers?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Kittens.
(c) Bugs.
(d) Fish.

4. How old is Sophie when the novel opens?
(a) 15.
(b) 10.
(c) 12.
(d) 14.

5. Whose letter comes to Sophie's house?
(a) Hermes'.
(b) Hilde's father's.
(c) Her religious teacher's.
(d) The cat's.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Plato use math and geometry?

2. What does Plato believe human beings get caught in?

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

4. What does the note say inside Sophie's first envelope?

5. What lesson with the topic of Plato and Socrates is presented?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is Sophie's mother's reaction to her daughter's studies and new attitude realistic? Why?

2. What is Sophie's den symbolic of? How?

3. Holberg's play poses the question 'How does a person know which is reality and which is a dream'? What does this foreshadow in relation to Sophie?

4. What did Sophie learn from working with Legos in connection to Democritus?

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

6. What would be an example of Parmenides' beliefs in Sophie's life?

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

8. Characterize Sophie's religion teacher when she questioned Sophie's answers on a test.

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

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

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