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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. Where was Sophie's son sent upon arrival at the camp?
(a) the Children's Camp
(b) back to Warsaw
(c) to Germany
(d) to Hoss's household

2. How has Stingo reacted to Sophie's story about her son?
(a) he's excited
(b) he's not sure he believes it
(c) he's going to join the army
(d) he feels like he won't be able to sleep

3. What does Sophie say Wanda kept telling everyone about the Nazis?
(a) none of them were safe while the Nazis were in power
(b) the Nazis were going to win the war
(c) the Nazis were good for Germany and Poland
(d) the Nazis weren't so bad

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

5. Why does Sophie give Hoss pills?
(a) he has asked her to keep them hidden for him
(b) she's trying to poison him
(c) he is hit with a migraine
(d) she's trying to get him high

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the doctor at Auschwitz tell Sophie about her children?

2. At the beginning of Chapter 16, Stingo asserts one of his talents holds him in good stead on the train with Sophie. What is that talent?

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

4. At the camp, who was Bronek?

5. What was Sophie comforting Dr. Blackstock?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Stingo feel about fiction writers using the Holocaust as part of works of fiction? Why does he believe it is all right if he does that?

4. What is Lebensborn and how did it relate to Sophie?

5. How did Sophie think of Hoss by the time he leaves the camp?

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

7. Stingo, as the older narrator, recites some statistics about the Holocaust. Give a summary of them.

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

9. Describe the last night Stingo spent with Sophie.

10. Describe what Stingo found when he followed Sophie back to New York and what happened after that.

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