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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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 sick, he and Sophie are dating, and Nathan has given him a job
(c) he is writing again, he is now employed, he has found a new apartment
(d) he likes New York, he has a new job, he has found a girl

6. How does Stingo respond to the Weasel's request?
(a) he quits immediately
(b) he pretends to change
(c) he refuses to conform
(d) he straightens up and gets promoted

7. What does Sophie say is the reason she believes God has turned His face from her?
(a) by allowing her father and husband to be taken
(b) by allowing her to suffer under a horrible burden of guilt
(c) by allowing her mother to die
(d) by allowing the Nazis to come into Poland

8. When did the Nazi soldiers enter Cracow?
(a) May, 1939
(b) September, 1939
(c) Winter of 1940
(d) Spring of 1940

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

10. How does Stingo feel about his old girlfriend's death?
(a) indifferent
(b) concern, as well as a certain despair
(c) happy
(d) angry

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

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

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

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

15. What does his father tell him to do?
(a) put it in the bank
(b) use it to support Stingo's writing ambitions
(c) go buy a suit
(d) get a new apartment

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Stingo begin reading at work?

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

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

4. How do Sophie and Nathan dress after their fight?

5. What book is Stingo reading the day he has his date with Leslie?

(see the answer keys)

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