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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Sophie dream about on her last night in Hoss' household?
(a) her son
(b) her husband
(c) Professor Biegański
(d) Dürrfeld

2. When Sophie and Stingo leave for the beach what is Stingo's concern about Sophie?
(a) she still pines for Nathan
(b) she's drinking too much
(c) she hasn't eaten breakfast
(d) she thinks she should die

3. Why did Sophie leave the party and take a taxi home?
(a) the talk of the Polish people turning against the Jews
(b) they were talking about concentration camps
(c) they are talking about their children
(d) the talk of Hitler

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

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

6. Where was Sophie's son sent upon arrival at the camp?
(a) to Germany
(b) the Children's Camp
(c) back to Warsaw
(d) to Hoss's household

7. What does Sophie say to Stingo when she tells him about begging Hoss on her knees?
(a) she would have killed herself to save her son
(b) how she thought it would work
(c) she would have slept with him the rest of her life to save her son
(d) that prisoners were reduced to behaving like animals

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

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

10. Why is Stingo reading books about the Holocaust so many years after he met Sophie and Nathan?
(a) he likes to irritate his father
(b) he wants to write Sophie and Nathan's story
(c) he's trying to understand southern racism
(d) he's trying to understand the Jewish religion

11. When Sophie and Nathan are leaving for a party, what news do they hear on the radio?
(a) Germany has started to fight again
(b) the United States is declaring war on Russia
(c) Warsaw has been set afire
(d) Hermann Göring has committed suicide

12. How does Sophie feel about herself?
(a) that she is favored by God
(b) that she's ugly
(c) that she is filled with badness
(d) that she's too smart for Stingo

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

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

15. Why is Nathan thinking about visiting the south?
(a) he has an uncle there
(b) he wants to confront the racism
(c) he wants to see Stingo's farm
(d) he enjoys Stingo's novel

Short Answer Questions

1. What music did Sophie often hear while working for Hoss?

2. What did Jozef do in Poland?

3. What kind of musical instrument did Sophie's daughter play?

4. What does Sophie say about Nathan when Stingo and her are at Jones beach?

5. What were the two types of concentration camps in Poland?

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