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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. What is the Baroque period known for?

2. What does Sophie call her secret spot?

3. When Sophie returns from the Major's cabin soaking wet, what does Sophie's mother think?

4. What are Indo-European myths about?

5. After Sophie returns home from meeting Alberto, what does she see in the mirror?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Are the postcard that is addressed to Hilde, and Alberto's decision to teach Sophie in person, connected? Why?

5. Do people today, as the Greeks did, believe in fate or predestination? What are examples?

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

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

8. Sophie immediately thinks about the first question, "Who are you?" How does this indirectly characterize her?

9. Epicureans believe in seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. Is this a theme of the novel? Why?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Often times, a novel's setting is crucial to the plot. Is that the case with "Sophie's World"? Could this story have taken place anywhere? Would all societies be open to learning about different philosophers? Examine if the setting plays a significant factor in the novel.

Essay Topic 2

As the novel closes, what is Hilde's opinion of her father? Did this experience bring them closer or hurt their relationship? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Did Sophie succeed in her philosophy course? What was her goal or expectation as she began it? Was it possible for her to succeed?

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