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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Stingo's father get the money?
(a) from a robbery
(b) from Stingo's brother
(c) part of a severance package
(d) an inheritance

2. To what later comedian does the older narrator compare Nathan?
(a) Laurel and Hardy
(b) Bob Hope
(c) Steven Martin
(d) Lenny Bruce

3. What did Morris see the morning Stingo goes with them for a day out?
(a) a bunch of Catholics going to mass
(b) Nathan slapping Sophie as she lies on the floor
(c) Nathan with another woman
(d) Sophie packing her bags

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

5. What does Stingo sense between Nathan and Sophie?
(a) the continual tension
(b) deep, abiding love
(c) a sense of happiness
(d) hatred and anger

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Stingo do on this first morning in the boarding house?

3. Stingo falls asleep on the ride to Coney Island he has dreams. How does he feel when he awakens?

4. Where did Stingo get his nickname?

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

(see the answer key)

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