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Sophie's World
Jostein Gaarder
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Summary
Plot Overview
Summary & Analysis
The Garden of Eden, The Top Hat, and The Myths
The Natural Philosophers, Democritus, and Fate
Socrates, Athens, and Plato
The Major's Cabin and Aristotle
Hellenism and The Postcards
Two Cultures and The Middle Ages
The Renaissance and The Baroque
Descartes, Spinoza, and Locke
Hume, Berkeley, and Bjerkely
The Enlightenment and Kant
Romanticism and Hegel
Kierkegaard and Marx
Darwin and Freud
Our Own Time and The Garden Party
Counterpoint and The Big Bang
Characters
Character List
Sophie
Alberto
Hilde
Albert Knag
Main Ideas
Themes
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Motifs
Key Facts
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Plot Overview
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Themes, Motifs, and Symbols
The Garden of Eden, The Top Hat, and The Myths
The Natural Philosophers, Democritus, and Fate
Socrates, Athens, and Plato
The Major's Cabin and Aristotle
Hellenism and The Postcards
Two Cultures and The Middle Ages
The Renaissance and The Baroque
Descartes, Spinoza, and Locke
Hume, Berkeley, and Bjerkely
The Enlightenment and Kant
Romanticism and Hegel
Kierkegaard and Marx
Darwin and Freud
Our Own Time and The Garden Party
Counterpoint and The Big Bang
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1. Who was Plato's teacher?
Heraclitus
Aristotle
Socrates
Democritus
2. Who was Aristotle's teacher?
Parmenides
Socrates
Anaxagoras
Plato
3. Who founded existentialism?
Kierkegaard
Sartre
Freud
Darwin
4. Who is Hilde's father?
Alberto
Hermes
Jeremy
Albert
5. Who considered freedom a burden?
Aquinas
Sartre
Augustine
Alberto
6. Where was Hilde's father stationed?
Israel
Saudi Arabia
Iraq
Lebanon
7. Who does Hilde's father work for?
The Norwegian government
The United Nations
The Central Intelligence Agency
Greenpeace
8. What is Alberto's dog's name?
Thor
Beauvoir
Aristotle
Hermes
9. Where is Alberto in the videotape he gives to Sophie?
Athens
Paris
Rome
Oslo
10. Who believed in a world of ideas?
Kant
Hume
Plato
Kierkegaard
11. Who believed it is possible that we exist only in God's mind?
Descartes
Aristotle
Newton
Berkeley
12. Who believed the world conforms to our mind?
Kant
Aquinas
Plato
Descartes
13. When did the idea of returning to nature become popular?
The Middle Ages
The Baroque
The Renaissance
The Enlightenment
14. Who is famous for doubting?
Locke
Hume
Descartes
Spinoza
15. Who felt that philosophy needed to be practical?
Marx
Darwin
Aquinas
Plato
16. Who believed that people act according to their feelings, not their reason?
Kant
Aristotle
Hume
Sartre
17. What is the name of Sophie's best friend?
Hannah
Joanna
Hilde
Albert
18. Who argues that religion is a matter of either believing or not?
Kierkegaard
Locke
Hume
Sartre
19. Who developed the theory of natural selection?
Freud
Marx
Aquinas
Darwin
20. What period was characterized by an emphasis on humanism?
The Baroque
The Enlightenment
The Renaissance
The Middle Ages
21. Who focused on the world spirit?
Marx
Darwin
Freud
Hegel
22. Where did Socrates live?
Sparta
Rome
Athens
Crete
23. Who believed material forces shape history?
Sartre
Marx
Kierkegaard
Kant
24. Who "Christianized" Aristotle?
Aquinas
Augustine
Locke
Hume
25. Where does the book take place?
America
Greece
Switzerland
Norway
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