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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Stingo feel when Nathan asks to read his writing?
(a) he's flattered
(b) he's excited
(c) he's angry
(d) he's terrified

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

3. Where were Sophie's father and husband taken?
(a) to Russia
(b) to Warsaw
(c) to Berlin
(d) to Sachsenhausen

4. How do Leslie's parents appear to Stingo?
(a) uneducated
(b) boring
(c) cultured and well-mannered
(d) standoffish

5. Where did Stingo get his nickname?
(a) from his father
(b) when he was in the army
(c) in college, playing football
(d) at prep school in Virginia

6. What kind of announcement does Nathan plan to make the night they meet in the bar?
(a) that he has changed jobs
(b) about a big scientific breakthrough
(c) that he is moving to Tennessee
(d) that he is mentally ill

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

8. Why does Nathan apologize to Stingo for introducing him to Leslie?
(a) because Leslie was married
(b) because Leslie was a Jew
(c) because Leslie wouldn't sleep with Stingo
(d) because Leslie dumped Stingo

9. How does Stingo attempt to calm the situation with Nathan's anger?
(a) by putting a drug in his wine
(b) by proposing a toast to Nathan
(c) by flattering him
(d) by threatening him

10. Who did she meet in the library after she fainted?
(a) Stingo
(b) Julia
(c) David
(d) Nathan

11. What does Nathan do for Sophie on the night they meet?
(a) gets her a job
(b) cooks her an iron concentrated dinner
(c) proposes marriage
(d) beats her

12. What has inspired Stingo to write?
(a) living in New York city
(b) watching Sophie
(c) Maria Hunt's suicide
(d) hearing Nathan and Sophie

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

14. Why does Stingo describe Höss' background?
(a) in an attempt to understand and explain the nature of evil
(b) to understand Sophie's time in the camp
(c) to show how bad it was for Sophie
(d) to explain why Sophie helped Hoss

15. Of whom does Stingo remind Farrell?
(a) a favorite cousin
(b) his grandson
(c) of his son who died in the war
(d) his brother

Short Answer Questions

1. What's happening the first time Stingo sees Sophie?

2. Why is Madame Bovary Nathan's favorite book?

3. Where are Leslie's parents going the night Stingo meets them?

4. How did Stingo's Jewish friends seem to him as a child?

5. What three things is keeping Stingo in New York?

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