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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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

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

6. After the sounds in question # 19 stop, what does Stingo hear?
(a) screaming of kids outside
(b) a dog barking constantly
(c) a man's dominant yells, and feminine, submissive murmurs
(d) banging on his door

7. Why is Nathan screaming at Sophie in the bar?
(a) he thinks she's sleeping with Stingo
(b) he's angry she won't move to Tennessee with him
(c) he's accusing Sophie of lying about her father
(d) he'saccusing Sophie of having sex with Dr. Blackstock's assistant

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

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

10. What does Stingo compare Nathan to because of Nathan's education?
(a) a great scientist
(b) an all-around Renaissance man
(c) a college professor
(d) an educated country boy

11. What does the Weasel want from Stingo?
(a) to conform to office standards
(b) to bring him lunch every day
(c) to bring in more writers
(d) to write a best selling novel

12. Where do Stingo, Nathan and Sophie hang out to escape the summer heat?
(a) an air-conditioned cocktail lounge called the Maple Court
(b) in the park under the trees
(c) Nathan's brother's house
(d) in the basement of the boarding house

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Of whom does Stingo remind Farrell?

4. Why does Stingo believe Sophie left out important details when telling Nathan about the camp?

5. Where did her parents work?

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