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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Stingo think Leslie is going to have sex with him on their date?
(a) Sophie has told him she will
(b) she has told him she will
(c) her strongly suggestive conversation
(d) Nathan told him she will

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

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

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

5. What happened to Sophie's father and husband?
(a) they were held prisoner for the entire war
(b) they were gunned down
(c) they escaped and went to America
(d) they toiled in a munitions factory

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

7. How does Stingo see Nathan?
(a) Stingo looks to him as a father figure
(b) Stingo thinks he's perfect for Sophie
(c) Stingo overlooks his meanness
(d) Stingo thinks he should be arrested

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

9. Where is Stingo originally from?
(a) Texas
(b) the midwest
(c) Arizona
(d) southern United States

10. What type of role has Stingo acquired in Sophie's life?
(a) the role of lover
(b) the role of doctor
(c) the role of priestly confessor
(d) the role of little brother

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

12. When was Sophie sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp?
(a) 1947
(b) 1935
(c) 1943
(d) 1923

13. What does Stingo find when he returns to the boarding house after the fight?
(a) Nathan has kicked Sophie out of the boarding house
(b) Nathan has wrecked Stingo's room
(c) Nathan has fallen asleep in the front yard
(d) Sophie is sleeping in Stingo's bed

14. How do Sophie and Nathan dress after their fight?
(a) like 1920 flappers
(b) in matching riding outfits
(c) in the style of the 1930s
(d) like American soldiers

15. How does Farrell handle a life he hates?
(a) he plays poker
(b) he runs marathons
(c) he drinks
(d) he takes drugs

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sophie say is the reason she believes God has turned His face from her?

2. What does Nathan think is wrong with Sophie?

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

4. What has inspired Stingo to write?

5. What does Stingo begin reading at work?

(see the answer keys)

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