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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 does Hilde's mother admit to Hilde concerning a belonging?
2. How does Hilde feel about Sophie?
3. What angers Hilde concerning the passage, "We are a living planet, Sophie"?
4. According to Marx, what causes historical change?
5. According to Alberto, what happens to Romantics when they reach the age of 30?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the importance of the party becoming the theater of the absurd?
2. What is the author's tone toward Sophie and her mother in the Berkley chapter? Why?
3. Why does Sophie become shocked when she sees "Sophie's World" on a bookshelf?
4. In the Enlightenment period, there is an impulse toward mass education and cultural optimism. Do you see any traces of these beliefs in our culture today? How?
5. Why is it ironic that Sophie thinks Berkeley's theory is stupid?
6. English philosophers think that Man is like a blank blackboard and ready to take in data collected by the senses. Does this apply to Sophie's philosophical lessons? How?
7. Do you agree with Hegel that philosophers should be mirrors that reflect ideas of their time? Why?
8. To Hegel, truth is not a set thing, but something that changes. What do you think of this theory? Why?
9. Why does the old woman take Sophie and Alberto to the storybook character's camp?
10. Marx saw problems where workers did not control their workspaces. Is this true today, or is it only applicable during Marx's time? Can you think of an example?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Freud's dream analysis connect to Sophie and Alberto since they are in a dream?
Essay Topic 2
Many times, the Major manipulates Sophie in odd ways that seem unnecessary for his story. Such examples include hiding Hilde's crucifix and putting a birthday message inside a banana peel. Why would the Major do this? Did he seek more control over Sophie than was necessary? Connect HIlde's feelings on this subject into your answer, as well as an exploration of how this manipulation indirectly characterizes the Major.
Essay Topic 3
Evaluate all of the narrators. Which narrator do you prefer? Why?
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