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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Nat Turner famous?
(a) he led a slave revolt
(b) he was governor of Georgia
(c) he shot Thomas Jefferson
(d) he led the underground railroad

2. What does Stingo think about Sophie's position in the camp working for Hoss?
(a) she was a prostitute
(b) she was a traitor
(c) she was lucky compared to others at the camp
(d) she was a bad mother

3. What does Sophie say is the reason Nathan treats her and Stingo so poorly?
(a) Nathan is insane
(b) Nathan is a sociopath
(c) Nathan has been on drugs
(d) Nathan had a bad childhood

4. At the camp, who was Bronek?
(a) a member of the resistance group
(b) Hoss' son
(c) the housekeeper at Hoss'
(d) a prison guard

5. Who calls Stingo and asks to meet about Nathan?
(a) Henry, Nathan's father
(b) Dr. Gover, a doctor of Nathan's
(c) Nathan's mother
(d) Larry, Nathan's brother

6. What does Nathan say he has found?
(a) the cure for cancer
(b) the DNA molecue
(c) a vaccine against polio
(d) a measles vaccination

7. Where does Sophie try to steal a radio?
(a) from Hoss's office
(b) from the housekeeper's office
(c) out of Hoss's daughter's room
(d) from the kitchen

8. What does Sophie tell Hoss about her being at the camp?
(a) that her husband was German and she shouldn't be there
(b) that she was German and she shouldn't be there
(c) that she was a spy for the SS
(d) she was sent there by mistake

9. Why is Stingo interested in writing about Sophie?
(a) he thought it a fitting memorial
(b) she was a victim, but that she had also been an accessory
(c) he wanted to prove Sophie's worth to Nathan
(d) he was still in love with her

10. Stingo falls asleep on the beach. What does Sophie do?
(a) finishes the bottle of whiskey
(b) swims far out to drown
(c) walks the beach
(d) takes a bus home

11. How does Hoss repond to Sophie's information about her father?
(a) he rapes her
(b) he screams at her
(c) he sends her to be whipped
(d) he ignores it, worried only about his problems

12. What effect did Sophie's father's pamphlet have on his life?
(a) it made Sophie admire him even more
(b) it saved his life, even though he still was sent away
(c) none, he was still killed by the Nazis
(d) it brought him into Hitler's inner circle

13. What did Hoss promise her?
(a) she would see her son
(b) she would be reunited with her son and go with him
(c) she would be released
(d) she would go with him

14. Who is Irma?
(a) a friend of Sophie's at Auschwitz
(b) the owner of Monty's
(c) a bad German at Auschwitz
(d) the hotel maid

15. What does Stingo decide about his life during his visit with his father?
(a) that he misses his mother
(b) that he will never return home
(c) that his father pressures him too much
(d) that he will, indeed, move back home

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Sophie arrive at Auschwitz ?

2. Hoss called Sophie to a window to show her what?

3. Who is Professor Biegański?

4. How were the children at Auschwitz in the last days of the camp?

5. What does Stingo promise to buy Sophie?

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