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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. What does Stingo find out about Nathan?
(a) he's married
(b) he's a famous scientist
(c) he's dying
(d) he is a paranoid schizophrenic

2. What does Nathan rave about in the motel in Connecticut?
(a) that the Jews are treated unfairly
(b) that Germany should be destroyed completely
(c) that Sophie is a Nazi
(d) that he and Sophie must die

3. When did Sophie arrive at Auschwitz ?
(a) April Fool's Day
(b) Christmas Day
(c) Passover
(d) Easter

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

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 ability to talk
(b) his fighting ability
(c) his singing
(d) his writing

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Stingo go for ten days after the meeting in question #162?

2. What did Hoss promise her?

3. What did Sophie's father admire most?

4. Why is Stingo reading books about the Holocaust so many years after he met Sophie and Nathan?

5. What was Stingo doing during the time in which Sophie was sent to the camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Lebensborn and how did it relate to Sophie?

2. Describe the last night Stingo spent with Sophie.

3. Describe what happens between Sophie and Hoss when he receives a letter he wants her to translate.

4. Describe what first happens when Nathan returns to the boarding house in Chapter 14.

5. Why is Stingo concerned about Sophie's drinking?

6. Stingo, as the older narrator, recites some statistics about the Holocaust. Give a summary of them.

7. What do Stingo and Sophie do and talk about in the hotel in Washington?

8. Sophie's attraction to Dr. Dürrfeld is a metaphor which also came out in her dream. Explain this statement.

9. Describe the memory Sophie has been circling around the entire book.

10. How does Stingo feel about fiction writers using the Holocaust as part of works of fiction? Why does he believe it is all right if he does that?

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