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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is the Yetta Zimmerman's boarding house?
(a) glaring pink
(b) black
(c) purple
(d) bright yellow

2. What three things is keeping Stingo in New York?
(a) he likes New York, he has a new job, he has found a girl
(b) he was writing again, he has met Sophie and Nathan; and he thinks he has a steady sex partner
(c) he is writing again, he is now employed, he has found a new apartment
(d) he is sick, he and Sophie are dating, and Nathan has given him a job

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

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

5. What kind of house is Stingo expecting Leslie's to be?
(a) small ranch style
(b) a dark, gloomy house, clean, but smelling of must and gefilte fish
(c) a gothic mansion
(d) an upstairs apartment

Short Answer Questions

1. When Sophie and Nathan are leaving for a party, what news do they hear on the radio?

2. What is Stingo's goal in life?

3. What has inspired Stingo to write?

4. How does Stingo feel when Nathan asks to read his writing?

5. Where did her parents work?

(see the answer key)

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