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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. When did Sophie arrive at Auschwitz ?
(a) Christmas Day
(b) Easter
(c) April Fool's Day
(d) Passover

2. How long did the SS officer say Jews were allowed to live at the camp?
(a) three months
(b) two years
(c) three days
(d) two weeks

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

4. When on the subway to meet his father, what is on Stingo's mind?
(a) his old high school
(b) the next chapter of his book
(c) how to tell his father no
(d) mourning over the loss of Nathan and Sophie

5. Why is Stingo interested in writing about Sophie?
(a) he was still in love with her
(b) she was a victim, but that she had also been an accessory
(c) he thought it a fitting memorial
(d) he wanted to prove Sophie's worth to Nathan

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Nathan say the thief who took Stingo's money got into Stingo's room?

2. Where is Stingo at the end of the book?

3. Where do Sophie and Stingo decide to go when they leave New York?

4. What does Nathan rave about in the motel in Connecticut?

5. Why was Sophie arrested?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. What does Sophie tell Stingo in Chapter 9 about her time in Auschwitz?

5. Describe the memory Sophie has been circling around the entire book.

6. Explain the story about Dr. Walter Dürrfeld and Sophie.

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

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

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

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

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