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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Sophie dream about on her last night in Hoss' household?
(a) her husband
(b) Professor Biegański
(c) Dürrfeld
(d) her son

2. When did Sophie arrive at Auschwitz ?
(a) April Fool's Day
(b) Passover
(c) Christmas Day
(d) Easter

3. What does Sophie tell Stingo about his career?
(a) he should be a doctor
(b) he should move back home and be a farmer
(c) that he will be a famous author someday
(d) he'll never make money as a writer

4. What does Sophie say to Stingo when she tells him about begging Hoss on her knees?
(a) how she thought it would work
(b) she would have slept with him the rest of her life to save her son
(c) she would have killed herself to save her son
(d) that prisoners were reduced to behaving like animals

5. What does Bronek do for Sophie?
(a) gives her soap
(b) protects her from other prisoners
(c) helps her escape
(d) brings her food each day

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sophie say to his marriage proposal?

2. Why do Stingo and Sophie flee the boarding house?

3. Why is Nathan thinking about visiting the south?

4. Who is Professor Biegański?

5. When Sophie was working in the Hoss's household, where did she sleep?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Sophie think of Hoss by the time he leaves the camp?

2. What did Sophie tell about her son and the concentration camp?

3. What is Lebensborn and how did it relate to Sophie?

4. Stingo, as the older narrator, recites some statistics about the Holocaust. Give a summary of them.

5. What do Stingo and Sophie do and talk about in the hotel in Washington?

6. Describe what Stingo found when he followed Sophie back to New York and what happened after that.

7. What does Sophie tell Stingo in Chapter 9 about her time in Auschwitz?

8. What happened when Stingo received a call from Nathan's brother?

9. What kind of literature is Stingo reading twenty years after meeting Sophie and Nathan and why is he reading it?

10. Describe Stingo's interaction with his father during his father's trip to New York.

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