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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Bronek tells Sophie Höss is about to be transferred, why does she panic?
(a) it would mean she'd not see Bronek again
(b) she would be left at the mercy of the housekeeper
(c) it would mean she's have to go into the regular camp
(d) it would stop her plan for her son

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

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

4. How were the children at Auschwitz in the last days of the camp?
(a) froze to death
(b) gas chamber
(c) shot
(d) burned

5. What does Sophie do when Nathan returns after being gone so long?
(a) she takes him to the hospital
(b) she takes him to his brother's
(c) she kicks him out
(d) she takes him back

6. Why was Sophie arrested?
(a) smuggling a contraband ham
(b) helping Jews
(c) being a member of the resistance
(d) smuggling cigarettes

7. What does the doctor at Auschwitz tell Sophie about her children?
(a) they must go to Germany
(b) she may keep one of them
(c) they are beautiful
(d) they are sick children

8. Who assaults Sophie while living in the Hoss household?
(a) no one
(b) Wilhelmine, the evil German maid
(c) Hoss, the evil commandant
(d) Bronek, the evil guard

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

10. What does Sophhie beg Hoss to do?
(a) to let her go home
(b) to take her with him
(c) to have an affair with her
(d) to release her son, Jan

11. When Sophie was working in the Hoss's household, where did she sleep?
(a) in the washroom
(b) in the backyard
(c) in the basement
(d) in the attic

12. Who is Professor Biegański?
(a) Sophie's father
(b) Sophie's husband
(c) a friend of Nathan's
(d) Sophie's lover in Poland

13. Who was Jozef ?
(a) Sophie's son
(b) a guard at the camp
(c) Sophie's lover in Poland
(d) Sophie's father

14. What does Bronek do for Sophie?
(a) protects her from other prisoners
(b) brings her food each day
(c) helps her escape
(d) gives her soap

15. How does Stingo find Sophie and Nathan when he returns to New York?
(a) dead
(b) married
(c) fighting
(d) drunk

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sophie say to Stingo's marriage proposal?

2. Why is Stingo interested in writing about Sophie?

3. When Sophie and Stingo leave for the beach what is Stingo's concern about Sophie?

4. Stingo falls asleep on the beach. What does Sophie do?

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

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