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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. How did Wanda feel about Sophie being transferred to Hoss's office?
(a) she was jealous
(b) she was angry
(c) she thought it an opportunity
(d) she was indifferent

2. How were the children at Auschwitz in the last days of the camp?
(a) shot
(b) froze to death
(c) burned
(d) gas chamber

3. How did Dürrfeld feel about Sophie?
(a) he hated her
(b) he was indifferent to her
(c) he thought her childish
(d) he was attracted to her

4. Who was Jozef ?
(a) Sophie's lover in Poland
(b) Sophie's father
(c) a guard at the camp
(d) Sophie's son

5. Stingo is called back to the boarding house from his trip. Why?
(a) Sophie has died
(b) his father is sick
(c) a publisher wants his book
(d) Nathan has attacked Sophie

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sophhie beg Hoss to do?

2. What does Sophie tell Hoss about her being at the camp?

3. Who does Wanda tell Sophie to look for in Hoss's household?

4. At the camp, who was Bronek?

5. Why is Nat Turner famous?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what first happens when Nathan returns to the boarding house in Chapter 14.

2. What did Sophie tell about her son and the concentration camp?

3. Describe what happens between Sophie and Hoss when he receives a letter he wants her to translate.

4. Describe how Stingo reacts to finding his money gone.

5. Write a short paragraph about why Nat Turner is famous and why Stingo tells Nathan about him.

6. Describe what happened between Sophie and the German housekeeper, Wilhelmine.

7. Sophie's attraction to Dr. Dürrfeld is a metaphor which also came out in her dream. Explain this statement.

8. What do Stingo and Sophie do and talk about in the hotel in Washington?

9. What did Sophie first tell Stingo about her son and how she tried to help him at the camp?

10. Describe the day Sophie was arrested.

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