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

2. How does Hoss repond to Sophie's information about her father?
(a) he sends her to be whipped
(b) he ignores it, worried only about his problems
(c) he rapes her
(d) he screams at her

3. What does Sophie tell Hoss about her being at the camp?
(a) that she was a spy for the SS
(b) that she was German and she shouldn't be there
(c) she was sent there by mistake
(d) that her husband was German and she shouldn't be there

4. What does Sophie say is the reason Nathan treats her and Stingo so poorly?
(a) Nathan is a sociopath
(b) Nathan has been on drugs
(c) Nathan is insane
(d) Nathan had a bad childhood

5. What does Stingo promise to buy Sophie?
(a) a car
(b) a nice house
(c) a record player
(d) a horse

Short Answer Questions

1. At the camp, who was Bronek?

2. How does Sophie feel about herself?

3. Why is Stingo interested in writing about Sophie?

4. What does Sophie say Wanda kept telling everyone about the Nazis?

5. When did Sophie arrive at Auschwitz ?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Stingo observe at the celebration that the three have after Stingo returns from Nathan's brother?

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

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

4. Why is Stingo concerned about Sophie's drinking?

5. Describe some of the differences between Sophie's stay at the Hoss's household and the way the rest of the camp prisoners lived.

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

7. Describe some of the trip Sophie took with Nathan to Connecticut.

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

9. Describe Stingo's interaction with his father during his father's trip to New York.

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

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