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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 is Stingo waiting at the bar the night Sophie dresses in revealing clothes?
(a) they are waiting for Stingo's father
(b) Sophie's trying to get a job
(c) they expect Nathan to join them
(d) Stingo has an appointment with an agent

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

3. What does Sophie notice about Nathan's eyes when he's screaming at her?
(a) his pupils are small pinpoints
(b) his pupils had dilated to the size of dimes
(c) he has blue contacts on
(d) his eyes keep rolling up

4. Where did Stingo learn his religious prejudices about Judaism?
(a) in Sunday School
(b) from his employer
(c) from his father
(d) from Nathan

5. What stuns Stingo about the conversation with Nathan and Nathan's friends on Coney Island?
(a) the talk against the south
(b) the frank sexual discussions
(c) the talk about their families
(d) the talk against the United States

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Sophie sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp?

2. What does Stingo do on this first morning in the boarding house?

3. Why does Stingo describe Höss' background?

4. Where did Stingo get his nickname?

5. How does Stingo feel about his old girlfriend's death?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is Leslie's house and her parents like, according to Stingo and how do they differ than what he pictured?

8. 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?

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

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

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