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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Stingo find when he returns to the boarding house after the fight?
(a) Nathan has kicked Sophie out of the boarding house
(b) Sophie is sleeping in Stingo's bed
(c) Nathan has fallen asleep in the front yard
(d) Nathan has wrecked Stingo's room

2. Where did Sophie see Hoss's picture one day?
(a) on a wanted poster
(b) on the internet
(c) in the newspaper
(d) in a magazine

3. What's the first thing Stingo did with the money?
(a) move to another place
(b) ask the woman across the way out
(c) buy a car
(d) took a trip to Paris

4. When Stingo goes to get Sophie for their lunch picnic what happens?
(a) nothing happens
(b) he sees that she has no teeth
(c) he trips and knocks her down
(d) he grabs her and kisses her

5. What does Stingo decide at first, is the reason Leslie keeps pulling away from him?
(a) she doesn't know him well enough
(b) she's afraid her parents will return
(c) she doesn't like men
(d) that a classy girl like Leslie needs to be wooed

6. How does Stingo's first novel open?
(a) with a young boy lost in New York
(b) with an abusive man beating his girl friend
(c) with a man being put in an insane asylum
(d) with a dead girl being disinterred from her pauper's grave

7. When was Sophie sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp?
(a) 1935
(b) 1947
(c) 1943
(d) 1923

8. How did Stingo's Jewish friends seem to him as a child?
(a) perfectly normal
(b) unfriendly
(c) very smart
(d) strange

9. What does Stingo wonder about the the violence he has witnessed between Nathan and Sophie?
(a) how the good parts of the relationship leads to it
(b) why Yetta puts up with it
(c) why Sophie stays
(d) why Sophie doesn't kill Nathan

10. What happened to Sophie's father and husband?
(a) they toiled in a munitions factory
(b) they escaped and went to America
(c) they were gunned down
(d) they were held prisoner for the entire war

11. Why does Nathan apologize to Stingo for introducing him to Leslie?
(a) because Leslie was married
(b) because Leslie wouldn't sleep with Stingo
(c) because Leslie dumped Stingo
(d) because Leslie was a Jew

12. How does Stingo feel about Sophie after he meets her?
(a) he thinks she's dumb
(b) he feels guilty thinking about sleeping with her
(c) he decides he doesn't like her that much
(d) he feels like he's in love with her

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

14. Where is Stingo originally from?
(a) southern United States
(b) the midwest
(c) Texas
(d) Arizona

15. What does Nathan do that Stingo thinks is funny as they're walking down the street?.
(a) tells jokes about the Japanese
(b) tells army jokes
(c) teases Sophie
(d) his actor-like talent at mimicry

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Nathan screaming at Sophie in the bar?

2. What religion was Sophie when young?

3. From where had Sophie been released right before she met Nathan?

4. What does Stingo do on this first morning in the boarding house?

5. What kind of drink do Leslie's parents serve Stingo?

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