Sophie's World By Jostein Gaarder (Quiz)
1. Who was Plato's teacher?
(A) Heraclitus
(B) Aristotle
(C) Socrates
(D) Democritus
2. Who was Aristotle's teacher?
(A) Parmenides
(B) Socrates
(C) Anaxagoras
(D) Plato
3. Who founded existentialism?
(A) Kierkegaard
(B) Sartre
(C) Freud
(D) Darwin
4. Who is Hilde's father?
(A) Alberto
(B) Hermes
(C) Jeremy
(D) Albert
5. Who considered freedom a burden?
(A) Aquinas
(B) Sartre
(C) Augustine
(D) Alberto
6. Where was Hilde's father stationed?
(A) Israel
(B) Saudi Arabia
(C) Iraq
(D) Lebanon
7. Who does Hilde's father work for?
(A) The Norwegian government
(B) The United Nations
(C) The Central Intelligence Agency
(D) Greenpeace
8. What is Alberto's dog's name?
(A) Thor
(B) Beauvoir
(C) Aristotle
(D) Hermes
9. Where is Alberto in the videotape he gives to Sophie?
(A) Athens
(B) Paris
(C) Rome
(D) Oslo
10. Who believed in a world of ideas?
(A) Kant
(B) Hume
(C) Plato
(D) Kierkegaard
11. Who believed it is possible that we exist only in God's mind?
(A) Descartes
(B) Aristotle
(C) Newton
(D) Berkeley
12. Who believed the world conforms to our mind?
(A) Kant
(B) Aquinas
(C) Plato
(D) Descartes
13. When did the idea of returning to nature become popular?
(A) The Middle Ages
(B) The Baroque
(C) The Renaissance
(D) The Enlightenment
14. Who is famous for doubting?
(A) Locke
(B) Hume
(C) Descartes
(D) Spinoza
15. Who felt that philosophy needed to be practical?
(A) Marx
(B) Darwin
(C) Aquinas
(D) Plato
16. Who believed that people act according to their feelings, not their reason?
(A) Kant
(B) Aristotle
(C) Hume
(D) Sartre
17. What is the name of Sophie's best friend?
(A) Hannah
(B) Joanna
(C) Hilde
(D) Albert
18. Who argues that religion is a matter of either believing or not?
(A) Kierkegaard
(B) Locke
(C) Hume
(D) Sartre
19. Who developed the theory of natural selection?
(A) Freud
(B) Marx
(C) Aquinas
(D) Darwin
20. What period was characterized by an emphasis on humanism?
(A) The Baroque
(B) The Enlightenment
(C) The Renaissance
(D) The Middle Ages
21. Who focused on the world spirit?
(A) Marx
(B) Darwin
(C) Freud
(D) Hegel
22. Where did Socrates live?
(A) Sparta
(B) Rome
(C) Athens
(D) Crete
23. Who believed material forces shape history?
(A) Sartre
(B) Marx
(C) Kierkegaard
(D) Kant
24. Who "Christianized" Aristotle?
(A) Aquinas
(B) Augustine
(C) Locke
(D) Hume
25. Where does the book take place?
(A) America
(B) Greece
(C) Switzerland
(D) Norway