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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Sophie get a better job, at first, at the camp?
(a) due to her knowledge of both Russian and German
(b) because she looked German
(c) because she had two children
(d) because she was beautiful

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

3. Why does Stingo believe Sophie left out important details when telling Nathan about the camp?
(a) she doesn't talk to anyone
(b) she just met him
(c) from an overwhelming sense of guilt
(d) she has forgotten most of it

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

5. 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 dead girl being disinterred from her pauper's grave
(d) with a man being put in an insane asylum

Short Answer Questions

1. What's happening the first time Stingo sees Sophie?

2. To what later comedian does the older narrator compare Nathan?

3. With whom does Stingo have a date and how did he meet her?

4. How does Stingo attempt to calm the situation with Nathan's anger?

5. What does Stingo's father suggest to him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Stingo getting ready for his date with Leslie.

2. What does Nathan do when he returns to Sophie's after meeting at the library.

3. How does Farrell feel about Stingo and what does he say to Stingo about his job and his life?

4. Why does Commandant Hoss say he had it as difficult as the prisoners?

5. Is Stingo tempted by his father's offer and why won't he take it?

6. How does the narrator Stingo write of Leslie Lapidus?

7. What does he do about not knowing anyone in New York, being a young man interested in women? How is that stopped?

8. What does Stingo think about Sophie's assertion that they will all be good friends?

9. Describe Stingo's first morning at the boarding house in relation to his writing.

10. Describe Stingo's feelings about his job and where he moved from to New York.

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