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

2. Who helped Sophie with her health problems after she met Nathan?
(a) Nathan's boss, Dr. Roger Calhoun
(b) Stingo's friend, Dr. Larry Morgan
(c) Nathan's father, Dr. Nathan Landau
(d) Nathan's brother, Dr. Larry Landau

3. From where had Sophie been released right before she met Nathan?
(a) in a state prison
(b) in a state mental hospital
(c) as a prisoner of war in Japan
(d) a Nazi concentration camp

4. What does Sophie tell Stingo about how her life before the war was?
(a) it was hard and they were poor
(b) her mother and father fought all the time
(c) she was an orphan
(d) domestic bliss and harmony in her parents' home

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Stingo watch from his apartment?

2. How did Sophie feel Dr. Blackstock's treatments were doing?

3. What type of role has Stingo acquired in Sophie's life?

4. To what later comedian does the older narrator compare Nathan?

5. What's the first thing Stingo did with the money?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens in the bar when Nathan shows up the night Sophie is dressed for Nathan's big announcement?

3. Describe some of Stingo's thoughts about Nathan as they relax in the bar in Chapter 8.

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

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

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

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

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

9. Describe Nathan's and Sophies argument before Stingo, Sophie and Nathan went to Coney Island.

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

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