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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Sophie try to steal a radio?
(a) from the kitchen
(b) from the housekeeper's office
(c) from Hoss's office
(d) out of Hoss's daughter's room

2. Stingo is called back to the boarding house from his trip. Why?
(a) Nathan has attacked Sophie
(b) his father is sick
(c) Sophie has died
(d) a publisher wants his book

3. What did Sophie's father admire most?
(a) a great symphony
(b) the United States
(c) intelligence
(d) all things German

4. What does Sophie say is the reason Nathan treats her and Stingo so poorly?
(a) Nathan is a sociopath
(b) Nathan is insane
(c) Nathan had a bad childhood
(d) Nathan has been on drugs

5. At the beginning of Chapter 16, Stingo asserts one of his talents holds him in good stead on the train with Sophie. What is that talent?
(a) his fighting ability
(b) his ability to talk
(c) his singing
(d) his writing

6. How has Stingo reacted to Sophie's story about her son?
(a) he's going to join the army
(b) he feels like he won't be able to sleep
(c) he's excited
(d) he's not sure he believes it

7. How did Nathan say the thief who took Stingo's money got into Stingo's room?
(a) used a spare key on the door
(b) came through the attic access
(c) Stingo must have left his door unlocked
(d) forced the window

8. Why is Nat Turner famous?
(a) he led the underground railroad
(b) he led a slave revolt
(c) he shot Thomas Jefferson
(d) he was governor of Georgia

9. How did Wanda feel about Sophie being transferred to Hoss's office?
(a) she was angry
(b) she was jealous
(c) she thought it an opportunity
(d) she was indifferent

10. Why did Sophie leave the party and take a taxi home?
(a) they were talking about concentration camps
(b) the talk of the Polish people turning against the Jews
(c) the talk of Hitler
(d) they are talking about their children

11. What effect did Sophie's father's pamphlet have on his life?
(a) it saved his life, even though he still was sent away
(b) none, he was still killed by the Nazis
(c) it made Sophie admire him even more
(d) it brought him into Hitler's inner circle

12. Who is Irma?
(a) the hotel maid
(b) a bad German at Auschwitz
(c) a friend of Sophie's at Auschwitz
(d) the owner of Monty's

13. What does Sophie say to Stingo when she tells him about begging Hoss on her knees?
(a) that prisoners were reduced to behaving like animals
(b) how she thought it would work
(c) she would have killed herself to save her son
(d) she would have slept with him the rest of her life to save her son

14. What does Sophie tell Stingo about his career?
(a) he should be a doctor
(b) that he will be a famous author someday
(c) he'll never make money as a writer
(d) he should move back home and be a farmer

15. Why is Stingo interested in writing about Sophie?
(a) he thought it a fitting memorial
(b) she was a victim, but that she had also been an accessory
(c) he wanted to prove Sophie's worth to Nathan
(d) he was still in love with her

Short Answer Questions

1. Who assaults Sophie while living in the Hoss household?

2. Why does Sophie wake Stingo early in the morning at the hotel?

3. How does Hoss repond to Sophie's information about her father?

4. Why did Sophie believe her son might be saved?

5. How did Dürrfeld feel about Sophie?

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