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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of role has Stingo acquired in Sophie's life?

2. Why is Stingo waiting at the bar the night Sophie dresses in revealing clothes?

3. What book is Stingo reading the day he has his date with Leslie?

4. What happened on the subway that made Sophie think about suicide?

5. How does Stingo respond to Nathan's racism debate?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Nathan do when he returns to Sophie's after meeting at the library.

2. Describe what Sophie says about her early days in Poland.

3. Describe Sophie's time in Sweden after she was liberated from the concentration camp.

4. How does Farrell feel about Stingo and what does he say to Stingo about his job and his life?

5. What happened the day the day the Nazis came to the university? How did Sophie know?

6. Describe Nathan's criticism of Stingo's southern origins. To what does he compare Stingo?

7. What types of behavior did Stingo indulge in that his new boss at McGraw-Hill hated?

8. One night in the Maple Court Stingo and Sophie are waiting for Nathan. Sophie is dressed differently than usual. How is she dressed and why is she dressed that way?

9. Describe Stingo's thoughts on Senator Theodore Gilmore Bilbo and why he was thinking of him.

10. What is Leslie's house and her parents like, according to Stingo and how do they differ than what he pictured?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Sophie's experience in the concentration camp. Include examples from the book.

Essay Topic 2

Sophie describes her actions with Hoss as though of an animal, but that she didn't care as she would have done anything to try to save her son. Do you think the Nazis saw their prisoners as animals? What do you think would be the advantage of the Nazis seeing people as less than human? Do you think this dehumanizing of captors is used often? Give an example of how and why this technique might be used by people who take advantage of others or perpetuate violent acts upon others.

Essay Topic 3

Stingo said no people, including Germans, should be condemned as a group. What do you think he meant by this statement? Do you agree with it? Why or why not?

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