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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Sophie tell Stingo about his career?
(a) that he will be a famous author someday
(b) he'll never make money as a writer
(c) he should move back home and be a farmer
(d) he should be a doctor

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

4. Who is Theodore Gilmore Bilbo?
(a) the governor of Virginia
(b) a friend of Nathan's
(c) a doctor Sophie is seeing
(d) Bilbo is a racist and a petty tyrant

5. Why is Nathan and Sophie's friendship so important to Stingo?
(a) he'd been starved for so long of any company at all
(b) he wanted to be their best man
(c) he never had friends
(d) he idolized them

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money did Nathan give Stingo?

2. What does his father tell him to do?

3. What does Sophie say to Stingo when she tells him about begging Hoss on her knees?

4. Sophie helped Hoss with his work beyond what he required of her. Why?

5. How did Nathan say the thief who took Stingo's money got into Stingo's room?

(see the answer key)

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