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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does Nathan give Stingo a hard time?
(a) being from the south
(b) trying to be a writer
(c) being short
(d) being in love with Sophie

2. What's the first thing Stingo did with the money?
(a) ask the woman across the way out
(b) buy a car
(c) took a trip to Paris
(d) move to another place

3. What does Sophie tell Stingo about how her life before the war was?
(a) she was an orphan
(b) her mother and father fought all the time
(c) it was hard and they were poor
(d) domestic bliss and harmony in her parents' home

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

5. Where did her parents work?
(a) they were both professors at the university
(b) her father was a doctor, her mother a nurse
(c) her father was in governemnt, her mother a housewife
(d) they worked in a shoe factory

Short Answer Questions

1. Of whom does Stingo remind Farrell?

2. Who does Stingo watch from his apartment?

3. In Chapter 3, Stingo does not yet know Sophie or Nathan well, but they wake him in the morning and ask him what?

4. When Stingo goes to get Sophie for their lunch picnic what happens?

5. How does Stingo feel about his old girlfriend's death?

(see the answer key)

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