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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Stingo keep checking his watch when he and Sophie are talking?
(a) he has to be at work
(b) his mind is on his hot date that night
(c) he wants to get out before Nathan gets home
(d) he thinks it's not working

2. What book is Stingo reading the day he has his date with Leslie?
(a) Little Women
(b) Pride and Prejudice
(c) Moby Dick
(d) Crime and Punishment

3. Why does Stingo believe Sophie left out important details when telling Nathan about the camp?
(a) she has forgotten most of it
(b) from an overwhelming sense of guilt
(c) she just met him
(d) she doesn't talk to anyone

4. Why is Stingo waiting at the bar the night Sophie dresses in revealing clothes?
(a) they are waiting for Stingo's father
(b) Stingo has an appointment with an agent
(c) Sophie's trying to get a job
(d) they expect Nathan to join them

5. Stingo receives a letter from his dad who tells him of what inheritance?
(a) a car
(b) a million dollars
(c) a boat
(d) a small farm

6. What does Sophie notice about Nathan's eyes when he's screaming at her?
(a) his pupils are small pinpoints
(b) he has blue contacts on
(c) his pupils had dilated to the size of dimes
(d) his eyes keep rolling up

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

8. What does Nathan think is wrong with Sophie?
(a) stress
(b) bad bones
(c) mental illness
(d) simple iron deficiency

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

10. What's the first thing Stingo did with the money?
(a) buy a car
(b) took a trip to Paris
(c) ask the woman across the way out
(d) move to another place

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

12. How did Sophie feel Dr. Blackstock's treatments were doing?
(a) she didn't receive any treatments
(b) they made her health worse
(c) they were doing her much good
(d) they were helping but not harming

13. What does Stingo do on this first morning in the boarding house?
(a) slept in late
(b) went to see Farrell
(c) bought a small dog
(d) bought writing supplies

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of drink do Leslie's parents serve Stingo?

2. As he sits in his room trying to write, what does Stingo hear?

3. What type of role has Stingo acquired in Sophie's life?

4. What does Stingo decide at first, is the reason Leslie keeps pulling away from him?

5. Why is Nathan and Sophie's friendship so important to Stingo?

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