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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nathan announce at the party about him and Sophie?
(a) they are getting a divorce
(b) they are getting married
(c) they are splitting up
(d) they are going to have a child

2. What does Nathan say he has found?
(a) a vaccine against polio
(b) a measles vaccination
(c) the cure for cancer
(d) the DNA molecue

3. When on the subway to meet his father, what is on Stingo's mind?
(a) the next chapter of his book
(b) mourning over the loss of Nathan and Sophie
(c) how to tell his father no
(d) his old high school

4. When Bronek tells Sophie Höss is about to be transferred, why does she panic?
(a) it would stop her plan for her son
(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 mean she'd not see Bronek again

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

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

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

8. What is Stingo asked to do when he meets with the person from question #162?
(a) keep a watch on him
(b) nothing
(c) call the police
(d) bring him home

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

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

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

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

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

14. Why is Stingo interested in writing about Sophie?
(a) he wanted to prove Sophie's worth to Nathan
(b) he was still in love with her
(c) he thought it a fitting memorial
(d) she was a victim, but that she had also been an accessory

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Sophie feel about herself?

3. Stingo is called back to the boarding house from his trip. Why?

4. What does Sophhie beg Hoss to do?

5. How does Stingo's father feel about New York?

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