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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Stingo interested in writing about Sophie?
(a) he thought it a fitting memorial
(b) he was still in love with her
(c) she was a victim, but that she had also been an accessory
(d) he wanted to prove Sophie's worth to Nathan

2. What did Jozef do in Poland?
(a) kill people who turned in Jews
(b) gather intelligence for the Nazis
(c) teach piano
(d) nothing, he lived in Germany

3. When Sophie and Stingo leave for the beach what is Stingo's concern about Sophie?
(a) she's drinking too much
(b) she still pines for Nathan
(c) she thinks she should die
(d) she hasn't eaten breakfast

4. How has Stingo reacted to Sophie's story about her son?
(a) he's going to join the army
(b) he's not sure he believes it
(c) he's excited
(d) he feels like he won't be able to sleep

5. What does Sophie say about Nathan when Stingo and her are at Jones beach?
(a) she is tired of making excuses for Nathan
(b) she thinks he should come home
(c) she thinks he's wonderful
(d) she misses him

6. What does Stingo find out about Nathan?
(a) he's dying
(b) he's married
(c) he is a paranoid schizophrenic
(d) he's a famous scientist

7. How long did the SS officer say Jews were allowed to live at the camp?
(a) two weeks
(b) three days
(c) two years
(d) three months

8. Why do Stingo and Sophie flee the boarding house?
(a) Sophie has decided to marry Stingo
(b) Nathan is high on drugs
(c) it's on fire
(d) Nathan is coming with a gun

9. Who is Irma?
(a) a friend of Sophie's at Auschwitz
(b) the owner of Monty's
(c) a bad German at Auschwitz
(d) the hotel maid

10. Where was Sophie's son sent upon arrival at the camp?
(a) back to Warsaw
(b) to Germany
(c) the Children's Camp
(d) to Hoss's household

11. What were the two types of concentration camps in Poland?
(a) Jewish and other
(b) Polish and Russian
(c) the death camp and the slave labor camp
(d) male and female

12. What effect did Sophie's father's pamphlet have on his life?
(a) it saved his life, even though he still was sent away
(b) it brought him into Hitler's inner circle
(c) none, he was still killed by the Nazis
(d) it made Sophie admire him even more

13. Who assaults Sophie while living in the Hoss household?
(a) Wilhelmine, the evil German maid
(b) no one
(c) Hoss, the evil commandant
(d) Bronek, the evil guard

14. How did Dürrfeld feel about Sophie?
(a) he was attracted to her
(b) he thought her childish
(c) he hated her
(d) he was indifferent to her

15. What does Nathan announce at the party about him and Sophie?
(a) they are getting married
(b) they are splitting up
(c) they are getting a divorce
(d) they are going to have a child

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Sophie believe her son might be saved?

2. How does Hoss repond to Sophie's information about her father?

3. What does Sophhie beg Hoss to do?

4. What does Stingo pretend to be at the motel with Sophie?

5. What does Stingo worry about as a potential suitor to Sophie?

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