Q 01/05

In Sophie's World, which toy does a letter to Sophie praise as a way to picture Democritus's atoms?

A) Meccano

B) Lego

C) Marbles

D) Dominoes

Answer · why

B) Lego

Lego bricks, the letter argues, behave like Democritus's atoms: a few simple, solid pieces that lock together, come apart and can be reused to build a...

Q 02/05

In Sophie's World, what is the name of Alberto Knox's dog, which carries the philosophy letters to Sophie?

A) Apollo

B) Argos

C) Hermes

D) Cerberus

Answer · why

C) Hermes

Hermes shares his name with the messenger of the Greek gods, a fitting choice for a dog that delivers the post. Later in the novel he even starts to s...

Q 03/05

In Sophie's World, Albert Knag hides a greeting to his daughter Hilde inside which unpeeled fruit?

A) A banana

B) An orange

C) A lemon

D) A mango

Answer · why

A) A banana

A banana with a greeting hidden inside is one of the impossible stunts by which Knag, the author of Sophie's story, shows that he controls everything ...

Q 04/05

In Sophie's World, which Irish bishop's philosophy leads Sophie and Alberto to see that they are characters in a book?

A) Baruch Spinoza

B) Gottfried Leibniz

C) Francis Bacon

D) George Berkeley

Answer · why

D) George Berkeley

George Berkeley argued that we exist only in the mind of God, which lets Sophie and Alberto work out that they exist only in the mind of Albert Knag, ...

Q 05/05

In Sophie's World, philosophers are said to climb the fine hairs of which animal's fur to look a magician in the eye?

A) A squirrel

B) A bear

C) A cat

D) A rabbit

Answer · why

D) A rabbit

A rabbit pulled from a top hat is the novel's running image: most people burrow deep into its fur and get comfortable, while philosophers climb to the...