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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened on the subway that made Sophie think about suicide?
(a) she was screamed at
(b) she was molested
(c) she dreamt of her husband
(d) she was robbed

2. How does Stingo feel about his old girlfriend's death?
(a) happy
(b) angry
(c) concern, as well as a certain despair
(d) indifferent

3. What does Stingo begin reading at work?
(a) more radical newspapers
(b) already published novels
(c) art books
(d) the Wall Street Journal

4. What happened to Sophie in the library that made her faint?
(a) it was too hot and she was hungry
(b) she hadn't drunk enough water that day
(c) a man yelled at her who looked like a Nazi
(d) she was pregnant

5. How does Stingo's first novel open?
(a) with a young boy lost in New York
(b) with an abusive man beating his girl friend
(c) with a dead girl being disinterred from her pauper's grave
(d) with a man being put in an insane asylum

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do Sophie and Nathan dress after their fight?

3. Of whom does Stingo remind Farrell?

4. What does Stingo's father suggest to him?

5. After the sounds in question # 19 stop, what does Stingo hear?

(see the answer key)

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