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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 does Farrell urge Stingo to do?
(a) to strike out on his own and pursue his dreams
(b) to get married and have children
(c) to join the navy
(d) to kill the Weasel

2. How does Farrell handle a life he hates?
(a) he plays poker
(b) he takes drugs
(c) he drinks
(d) he runs marathons

3. How does Stingo's first novel open?
(a) with a man being put in an insane asylum
(b) with an abusive man beating his girl friend
(c) with a dead girl being disinterred from her pauper's grave
(d) with a young boy lost in New York

4. Stingo falls asleep on the ride to Coney Island he has dreams. How does he feel when he awakens?
(a) rested and ready to have fun
(b) frightened
(c) a desperate urge to flee the situation
(d) confused

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Stingo get his nickname?

2. Where did her parents work?

3. What kind of apartment does Stingo have?

4. What kind of house is Stingo expecting Leslie's to be?

5. What does Sophie notice about Nathan's eyes when he's screaming at her?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe Sophie's time in Sweden after she was liberated from the concentration camp.

5. Why does Commandant Hoss say he had it as difficult as the prisoners?

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

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

8. Why does Stingo's father write him about an inheritance and what does he say?

9. 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?

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

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