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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What's happening the first time Stingo sees Sophie?
(a) they are both doing laundry
(b) Nathan is screaming at her in the hallway
(c) Sophie is slapping Nathan
(d) Sophie is pushing a baby stroller

2. Why is Yetta yelling at Moishe Muskatblit?
(a) he tracked mud into the hall
(b) he hasn't paid his rent
(c) he has a girlfriend
(d) he didn't fix the kitchen sink

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

4. 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

5. Where did Sophie see Hoss's picture one day?
(a) in the newspaper
(b) on the internet
(c) in a magazine
(d) on a wanted poster

6. Why did Sophie allow Nathan to undress her and put her to bed?
(a) she lost her modesty in the concentration camp
(b) she wanted to have an affair with him
(c) Nathan continues to refer to himself as a doctor
(d) she was too confused to notice

7. Why did Sophie get a better job, at first, at the camp?
(a) because she was beautiful
(b) because she looked German
(c) due to her knowledge of both Russian and German
(d) because she had two children

8. What does Stingo begin reading at work?
(a) the Wall Street Journal
(b) more radical newspapers
(c) already published novels
(d) art books

9. From where had Sophie been released right before she met Nathan?
(a) in a state prison
(b) a Nazi concentration camp
(c) as a prisoner of war in Japan
(d) in a state mental hospital

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

11. What color is the Yetta Zimmerman's boarding house?
(a) bright yellow
(b) glaring pink
(c) purple
(d) black

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

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

14. Where are Leslie's parents going the night Stingo meets them?
(a) no where
(b) to dinner with a friend
(c) to Europe for the summer
(d) out of the house for the weekend

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Stingo see Nathan?

2. What has inspired Stingo to write?

3. How does Stingo respond to Nathan's racism debate?

4. In Chapter 3, Stingo does not yet know Sophie or Nathan well, but they wake him in the morning and ask him what?

5. What does Stingo do on this first morning in the boarding house?

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