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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 3, Stingo does not yet know Sophie or Nathan well, but they wake him in the morning and ask him what?
(a) to join them on an outing to Coney Island
(b) if he was a Jew
(c) if their noise disturbed him
(d) if he knew how to speak German

2. What does his father tell him to do?
(a) put it in the bank
(b) get a new apartment
(c) go buy a suit
(d) use it to support Stingo's writing ambitions

3. What does Sophie tell Nathan in defense of Stingo?
(a) he does not know firsthand about concentration camps
(b) he is prejudiced against women
(c) he's all mouth and to shut up
(d) he hasn't lived in the south so he is ignorant

4. Who is Theodore Gilmore Bilbo?
(a) the governor of Virginia
(b) a doctor Sophie is seeing
(c) a friend of Nathan's
(d) Bilbo is a racist and a petty tyrant

5. What does Stingo sense between Nathan and Sophie?
(a) a sense of happiness
(b) hatred and anger
(c) deep, abiding love
(d) the continual tension

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Stingo attempt to calm the situation with Nathan's anger?

2. What does Stingo compare Nathan to because of Nathan's education?

3. What does Stingo's father suggest to him?

4. Where are Leslie's parents going the night Stingo meets them?

5. How does Stingo feel about Sophie after he meets her?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Nathan's criticism of Stingo's southern origins. To what does he compare Stingo?

2. Describe Stingo's thoughts on Senator Theodore Gilmore Bilbo and why he was thinking of him.

3. What does Sophie tell Nathan the first night they met about her background in the camp?

4. How does Farrell feel about Stingo and what does he say to Stingo about his job and his life?

5. Describe Stingo getting ready for his date with Leslie.

6. What types of behavior did Stingo indulge in that his new boss at McGraw-Hill hated?

7. How does the narrator Stingo write of Leslie Lapidus?

8. What happens between Stingo and Sophie after she and Nathan fight?

9. What does Nathan do when he returns to Sophie's after meeting at the library.

10. Describe the conversation Stingo and Sophie have in the park when they go for lunch in Chapter 6.

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