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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. How is Alberto dressed when Sophie meets him at the church?

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

3. Why does Alberto begin teaching Sophie in person?

4. What do the Epicureans believe?

5. How often does Sophie see her father?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why would Hermes growl at Sophie when she follows him? Is this characteristic of a dog? Why?

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

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

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

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

6. Why were ancient people angry when they spoke to Socrates and he claimed not to know anything?

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

8. 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?

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

10. Why does Sophie's mother handle her daughter's relationship with Alberto so calmly?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How much do you think Alberto knows of the Major's interference in Sophie's life? Does he know from the beginning that Sophie is a character? Explain why and what clues show this.

Essay Topic 2

How does Freud's dream analysis connect to Sophie and Alberto since they are in a dream?

Essay Topic 3

How is HIlde's life changed from studying philosophy? Why did her father want her to study these philosophers and their theories? What groundwork does it provide her in life?

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