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

2. What does Sophie do when Nathan returns after being gone so long?
(a) she takes him back
(b) she kicks him out
(c) she takes him to the hospital
(d) she takes him to his brother's

3. How did Sophie's husband feel about her father?
(a) he was nothing more than a disciple of her father's
(b) he thought her father was insane
(c) he fought with him constantly
(d) he tried to kill him several times

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

5. What is the program Sophie tells Stingo about as a hope she had for her son?
(a) a Polish program giving scholarships to Poles
(b) a Nazi program called Lebensborn
(c) a new program that looks for lost children
(d) an American program rescuing Jewish children

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Nat Turner famous?

2. Stingo is called back to the boarding house from his trip. Why?

3. Why is Nathan thinking about visiting the south?

4. How has Stingo reacted to Sophie's story about her son?

5. What were the two types of concentration camps in Poland?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe how Stingo reacts to finding his money gone.

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

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

9. 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?

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

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