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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 were the two types of concentration camps in Poland?
(a) male and female
(b) Polish and Russian
(c) Jewish and other
(d) the death camp and the slave labor camp

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

3. What music did Sophie often hear while working for Hoss?
(a) Wagner's opera
(b) Bach's Cannon
(c) a Haydn symphony
(d) The Everly Brothers

4. Why did Sophie leave the party and take a taxi home?
(a) the talk of Hitler
(b) they were talking about concentration camps
(c) the talk of the Polish people turning against the Jews
(d) they are talking about their children

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Sophie was working in the Hoss's household, where did she sleep?

2. Who does Sophie dream about on her last night in Hoss' household?

3. What was the name of the pamphlet Sophie's father wrote about Poland?

4. Why did Sophie believe her son might be saved?

5. What does Sophie say to his marriage proposal?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the day Sophie was arrested.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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