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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. Why does Stingo keep checking his watch when he and Sophie are talking?
(a) his mind is on his hot date that night
(b) he has to be at work
(c) he wants to get out before Nathan gets home
(d) he thinks it's not working

2. To what later comedian does the older narrator compare Nathan?
(a) Lenny Bruce
(b) Bob Hope
(c) Laurel and Hardy
(d) Steven Martin

3. What does Stingo find when he returns to the boarding house after the fight?
(a) Nathan has kicked Sophie out of the boarding house
(b) Nathan has wrecked Stingo's room
(c) Nathan has fallen asleep in the front yard
(d) Sophie is sleeping in Stingo's bed

4. What happened on the subway that made Sophie think about suicide?
(a) she was robbed
(b) she dreamt of her husband
(c) she was screamed at
(d) she was molested

5. Why was his picture there, the answer to question#71?
(a) it was showing many of the Nazis
(b) it announced his arrival in New York
(c) it was taken moments before he was hung as a war criminal
(d) it was showing pictures of Auschwitz

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Morris see the morning Stingo goes with them for a day out?

2. About what does Nathan give Stingo a hard time?

3. What religion was Sophie when young?

4. How does Nathan feel about Stingo being a writer?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What happened the day the day the Nazis came to the university? How did Sophie know?

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

6. Describe Stingo's first morning at the boarding house in relation to his writing.

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

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

9. Describe what Sophie says about her early days in Poland.

10. When Stingo sees Yetta yelling at Moishe what goes through his mind about Jews?

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