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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What's happening the first time Stingo sees Sophie?
(a) they are both doing laundry
(b) Nathan is screaming at her in the hallway
(c) Sophie is pushing a baby stroller
(d) Sophie is slapping Nathan

2. How did Sophie feel Dr. Blackstock's treatments were doing?
(a) she didn't receive any treatments
(b) they made her health worse
(c) they were doing her much good
(d) they were helping but not harming

3. To what later comedian does the older narrator compare Nathan?
(a) Laurel and Hardy
(b) Lenny Bruce
(c) Bob Hope
(d) Steven Martin

4. Of whom does Stingo remind Farrell?
(a) his grandson
(b) of his son who died in the war
(c) his brother
(d) a favorite cousin

5. Stingo receives a letter from his dad who tells him of what inheritance?
(a) a car
(b) a boat
(c) a small farm
(d) a million dollars

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Stingo's goal in life?

2. What does Farrell urge Stingo to do?

3. Why does Stingo think Leslie is going to have sex with him on their date?

4. What stuns Stingo about the conversation with Nathan and Nathan's friends on Coney Island?

5. Where is Sophie working in 1947, in America?

(see the answer key)

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