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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sophie tell Stingo about how her life before the war was?
(a) domestic bliss and harmony in her parents' home
(b) she was an orphan
(c) it was hard and they were poor
(d) her mother and father fought all the time

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

3. Why was his picture there, the answer to question#71?
(a) it was showing pictures of Auschwitz
(b) it was showing many of the Nazis
(c) it was taken moments before he was hung as a war criminal
(d) it announced his arrival in New York

4. When did the Nazi soldiers enter Cracow?
(a) May, 1939
(b) Winter of 1940
(c) September, 1939
(d) Spring of 1940

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

6. Why is Madame Bovary Nathan's favorite book?
(a) his brother wrote the book
(b) because of its suicide motif
(c) he likes the character, Madame Bovary
(d) he likes the author

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

8. What does Farrell urge Stingo to do?
(a) to kill the Weasel
(b) to get married and have children
(c) to join the navy
(d) to strike out on his own and pursue his dreams

9. What kind of apartment does Stingo have?
(a) a brownstone in Queens
(b) tiny, cheap, cubby-hole of an apartment
(c) a loft on Fifth Avenue
(d) the penthouse in the Regency

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

11. 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

12. How does Stingo attempt to calm the situation with Nathan's anger?
(a) by putting a drug in his wine
(b) by threatening him
(c) by proposing a toast to Nathan
(d) by flattering him

13. Who helped Sophie with her health problems after she met Nathan?
(a) Stingo's friend, Dr. Larry Morgan
(b) Nathan's boss, Dr. Roger Calhoun
(c) Nathan's father, Dr. Nathan Landau
(d) Nathan's brother, Dr. Larry Landau

14. How do Leslie's parents appear to Stingo?
(a) boring
(b) standoffish
(c) uneducated
(d) cultured and well-mannered

15. With whom does Stingo have a date and how did he meet her?
(a) Susn Patril, who he met at the deli
(b) Debra Smith, who he met at church
(c) Leslie Lapidus, with whom Nathan had set him up
(d) Lynn Tuval, who he met her at work

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Sophie see Hoss's picture one day?

2. What does Stingo compare Nathan to because of Nathan's education?

3. What does Stingo sense between Nathan and Sophie?

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

5. What does Stingo decide at first, is the reason Leslie keeps pulling away from him?

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