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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sophie say she knows nothing about?

2. What did one of Sophie's friends once try to do to Otto?

3. What does Otto say is falling apart when he leaves the Holsteins' house?

4. What is Francis's occupation?

5. Where did Sophie go shopping at the beginning of the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sophie hear when Otto goes back to sleep after being woken up at 3:00 am?

2. What shows Sophie that her marriage was in serious trouble before her affair?

3. How do Sophie and Otto feel about Flo?

4. What did Sophie do when she saw the stray cat at her back door?

5. Why did Sophie tell Charlie she had not seen a doctor about her hand yet?

6. Why does Sophie finally confess to her husband about the bite from the cat? What is his reaction?

7. What does Charlie complain to Sophie about Bobby?

8. What happens to the Bentwoods' house when they return from the party?

9. What purchase did Sophie make at the beginning of the book?

10. What does Sophie talk to Otto about when she wakes him up at 3:00 am?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears? How do the characters touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 2

What caused the end of the business relationship between Charlie and Otto? How does this severed relationship affect their spouses?

Essay Topic 3

Courage and fear are two attributes that are seen a number of times in this book. Where do they appear? How does the presence of these feelings change the characters who are involved in those scenes?

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