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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Stingo doing during the time in which Sophie was sent to the camp?
(a) working on the family farm
(b) trying to gain enough weight to join the Marines
(c) finishing high school
(d) attending college

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

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

5. What was the name of the pamphlet Sophie's father wrote about Poland?
(a) Poland: A Land Ripe and Ready for Hitler
(b) Poland's Jewish Problem: Does National Socialism Have the Answer
(c) Poland: The People and Country Compared to Germany
(d) Poland: How To Resist The Nazis

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

7. What does Sophie say about Nathan when Stingo and her are at Jones beach?
(a) she thinks he's wonderful
(b) she is tired of making excuses for Nathan
(c) she misses him
(d) she thinks he should come home

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

9. What music did Sophie often hear while working for Hoss?
(a) a Haydn symphony
(b) Wagner's opera
(c) Bach's Cannon
(d) The Everly Brothers

10. When did Sophie arrive at Auschwitz ?
(a) Passover
(b) Easter
(c) Christmas Day
(d) April Fool's Day

11. How did Sophie's husband feel about her father?
(a) he thought her father was insane
(b) he was nothing more than a disciple of her father's
(c) he fought with him constantly
(d) he tried to kill him several times

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

13. What does Sophie say to his marriage proposal?
(a) she's not ready for that
(b) nothing, he never asked her
(c) she would never marry him
(d) she'd love to marry him

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

15. Why was Sophie given a preferred position in the concentration camp?
(a) her ability to take German shorthand
(b) her knowledge of Spainish
(c) her knowledge of Europe
(d) her knowledge of English

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did the SS officer say Jews were allowed to live at the camp?

2. What does Stingo decide about his life during his visit with his father?

3. Why does Sophie wake Stingo early in the morning at the hotel?

4. What is the program Sophie tells Stingo about as a hope she had for her son?

5. What was Sophie comforting Dr. Blackstock?

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