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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How has Stingo reacted to Sophie's story about her son?
(a) he's going to join the army
(b) he feels like he won't be able to sleep
(c) he's excited
(d) he's not sure he believes it

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

3. Who does Wanda tell Sophie to look for in Hoss's household?
(a) Havel
(b) Bronek
(c) Marie
(d) Robert

4. What does Stingo pretend to be at the motel with Sophie?
(a) a doctor
(b) Sophie's brother
(c) a soldier
(d) a reverend

5. How does Nathan look at a possible trip south?
(a) as a honeymoon for him and Sophie
(b) as a way to research slavery
(c) as a way for Sophie to remember Germany
(d) as a way to cement his friendship with Stingo

6. What does Sophie say to Stingo's marriage proposal?
(a) that they live together first
(b) no
(c) yes
(d) are you crazy?

7. Stingo is called back to the boarding house from his trip. Why?
(a) his father is sick
(b) Sophie has died
(c) Nathan has attacked Sophie
(d) a publisher wants his book

8. What does Stingo tell Sophie when he does poorly with sex?
(a) he's shy
(b) he is a virgin
(c) he'll do better the next time
(d) he's so in love with her he couldn't wait

9. What does Stingo think is the possible reason he is attracted to Sophie?
(a) because she's a blond
(b) because she has traveled so much
(c) because she has a cute accent
(d) because he he cannot have her

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

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

12. What does Sophie say Wanda kept telling everyone about the Nazis?
(a) the Nazis were going to win the war
(b) the Nazis weren't so bad
(c) none of them were safe while the Nazis were in power
(d) the Nazis were good for Germany and Poland

13. Why does Sophie wake Stingo early in the morning at the hotel?
(a) so he could take her back
(b) to make love
(c) to say yes to marriage
(d) to go get her a drink

14. Why do Stingo and Sophie flee the boarding house?
(a) Nathan is high on drugs
(b) Nathan is coming with a gun
(c) Sophie has decided to marry Stingo
(d) it's on fire

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Sophie was working in the Hoss's household, where did she sleep?

2. Why is Nat Turner famous?

3. How much money did Nathan give Stingo?

4. What does Stingo find out about Nathan?

5. Where does Stingo go for ten days after the meeting in question #162?

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