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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. What does Stingo decide about his life during his visit with his father?
(a) that he misses his mother
(b) that he will never return home
(c) that his father pressures him too much
(d) that he will, indeed, move back home

2. What does Stingo find out about Nathan?
(a) he is a paranoid schizophrenic
(b) he's dying
(c) he's a famous scientist
(d) he's married

3. What did Hoss promise her?
(a) she would be reunited with her son and go with him
(b) she would go with him
(c) she would see her son
(d) she would be released

4. What does Sophie say to his marriage proposal?
(a) she's not ready for that
(b) nothing, he never asked her
(c) she would never marry him
(d) she'd love to marry him

5. Sophie helped Hoss with his work beyond what he required of her. Why?
(a) she felt sorry for him
(b) she wanted him to trust her so she could kill him
(c) she was trying to get him to see her as a person
(d) she fell in love with him

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Jozef ?

2. How long did the SS officer say Jews were allowed to live at the camp?

3. What kind of musical instrument did Sophie's daughter play?

4. How were the children at Auschwitz in the last days of the camp?

5. What does Bronek do for Sophie?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What kind of literature is Stingo reading twenty years after meeting Sophie and Nathan and why is he reading it?

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

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

7. What happened with Sophie and her boss that causes Nathan to scream at her?

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

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

10. What does Sophie say about her father in Chapter 9 that conflicts with her statements concerning him earlier in the book?

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