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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Morris see the morning Stingo goes with them for a day out?
(a) a bunch of Catholics going to mass
(b) Nathan with another woman
(c) Nathan slapping Sophie as she lies on the floor
(d) Sophie packing her bags

3. What stuns Stingo about the conversation with Nathan and Nathan's friends on Coney Island?
(a) the talk against the United States
(b) the talk about their families
(c) the frank sexual discussions
(d) the talk against the south

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

5. In Chapter 3, Stingo does not yet know Sophie or Nathan well, but they wake him in the morning and ask him what?
(a) if he was a Jew
(b) to join them on an outing to Coney Island
(c) if their noise disturbed him
(d) if he knew how to speak German

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

7. What does Sophie say is the reason she believes God has turned His face from her?
(a) by allowing the Nazis to come into Poland
(b) by allowing her father and husband to be taken
(c) by allowing her mother to die
(d) by allowing her to suffer under a horrible burden of guilt

8. What kind of drink do Leslie's parents serve Stingo?
(a) coca-cola
(b) red wine
(c) iced lemonade
(d) imported Danish beer

9. From where had Sophie been released right before she met Nathan?
(a) a Nazi concentration camp
(b) as a prisoner of war in Japan
(c) in a state prison
(d) in a state mental hospital

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

11. What does Stingo begin reading at work?
(a) the Wall Street Journal
(b) art books
(c) already published novels
(d) more radical newspapers

12. What happened to Stingo's old girl friend, back home?
(a) she just died, by suicide
(b) she died in childbirth
(c) she was murdered
(d) she passed away from cancer

13. Why does Stingo think Leslie is going to have sex with him on their date?
(a) Nathan told him she will
(b) her strongly suggestive conversation
(c) Sophie has told him she will
(d) she has told him she will

14. What does his father tell him to do?
(a) go buy a suit
(b) use it to support Stingo's writing ambitions
(c) put it in the bank
(d) get a new apartment

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of apartment does Stingo have?

2. Where do Stingo, Nathan and Sophie hang out to escape the summer heat?

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

4. What does Stingo find when he returns to the boarding house after the fight?

5. Why is Nathan and Sophie's friendship so important to Stingo?

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