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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Where is Stingo at the end of the book?
(a) at home with his father
(b) in Germany
(c) on a sunny beach
(d) in Virginia

11. What does Nathan rave about in the motel in Connecticut?
(a) that Germany should be destroyed completely
(b) that the Jews are treated unfairly
(c) that he and Sophie must die
(d) that Sophie is a Nazi

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

13. Hoss called Sophie to a window to show her what?
(a) his daughters at play
(b) his prized Arabian stallion
(c) his wife serving a picnic
(d) her son

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

15. What did Jozef do in Poland?
(a) gather intelligence for the Nazis
(b) kill people who turned in Jews
(c) teach piano
(d) nothing, he lived in Germany

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sophie say Wanda kept telling everyone about the Nazis?

2. What does Stingo find out about Nathan?

3. What does Stingo worry about as a potential suitor to Sophie?

4. What is Stingo asked to do when he meets with the person from question #162?

5. How has Stingo reacted to Sophie's story about her son?

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