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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What stuns Stingo about the conversation with Nathan and Nathan's friends on Coney Island?
(a) the talk about their families
(b) the frank sexual discussions
(c) the talk against the south
(d) the talk against the United States

2. How does Stingo's first novel open?
(a) with an abusive man beating his girl friend
(b) with a dead girl being disinterred from her pauper's grave
(c) with a young boy lost in New York
(d) with a man being put in an insane asylum

3. What happened on the subway that made Sophie think about suicide?
(a) she was screamed at
(b) she was molested
(c) she was robbed
(d) she dreamt of her husband

4. In Chapter 3, Stingo does not yet know Sophie or Nathan well, but they wake him in the morning and ask him what?
(a) if he was a Jew
(b) if their noise disturbed him
(c) if he knew how to speak German
(d) to join them on an outing to Coney Island

5. When Stingo goes to get Sophie for their lunch picnic what happens?
(a) he trips and knocks her down
(b) he grabs her and kisses her
(c) nothing happens
(d) he sees that she has no teeth

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Stingo's goal in life?

2. Where is Sophie working in 1947, in America?

3. Who did she meet in the library after she fainted?

4. Stingo receives a letter from his dad who tells him of what inheritance?

5. How do Sophie and Nathan dress after their fight?

(see the answer key)

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