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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of apartment does Stingo have?
(a) tiny, cheap, cubby-hole of an apartment
(b) a brownstone in Queens
(c) the penthouse in the Regency
(d) a loft on Fifth Avenue

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

3. What does Stingo's father suggest to him?
(a) he sells it
(b) he gets another job
(c) he use it for writing
(d) he comes home

4. From where had Sophie been released right before she met Nathan?
(a) in a state mental hospital
(b) in a state prison
(c) as a prisoner of war in Japan
(d) a Nazi concentration camp

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Stingo's first novel open?

2. What does his father tell him to do?

3. How did Sophie feel Dr. Blackstock's treatments were doing?

4. About what does Nathan give Stingo a hard time?

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

(see the answer key)

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