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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. What book is Stingo reading the day he has his date with Leslie?
(a) Pride and Prejudice
(b) Little Women
(c) Moby Dick
(d) Crime and Punishment

2. Where did her parents work?
(a) they worked in a shoe factory
(b) her father was in governemnt, her mother a housewife
(c) her father was a doctor, her mother a nurse
(d) they were both professors at the university

3. What does Stingo's father suggest to him?
(a) he comes home
(b) he use it for writing
(c) he sells it
(d) he gets another job

4. What religion was Sophie when young?
(a) strictly Catholic
(b) Anglican
(c) Luthern
(d) Jewish

5. Stingo receives a letter from his dad who tells him of what inheritance?
(a) a million dollars
(b) a small farm
(c) a boat
(d) a car

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Stingo respond to the Weasel's request?

2. How does Stingo see Nathan?

3. With whom does Stingo have a date and how did he meet her?

4. How did Nathan view Stingo as far as Sophie went?

5. When Stingo goes to get Sophie for their lunch picnic what happens?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. One night in the Maple Court Stingo and Sophie are waiting for Nathan. Sophie is dressed differently than usual. How is she dressed and why is she dressed that way?

3. Tell the story of how Stingo's father got the money he sent.

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

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

6. Describe the scene between Stingo and Leslie at her house.

7. Why did the conversation with Nathan's friends on Coney Island fascinate Stingo?

8. What does he do about not knowing anyone in New York, being a young man interested in women? How is that stopped?

9. Describe Stingo's feelings about his job and where he moved from to New York.

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

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