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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is not present at Walker's oral examination?
(a) Lomax.
(b) Frye.
(c) Holland.
(d) Finch.

2. How many minutes are professors allowed to question Walker during his oral examination?
(a) 20.
(b) 45.
(c) 30.
(d) 15.

3. What two poles did university students lean to in regards to the feud between Lomax and Stoner?
(a) Avoidance and protest.
(b) Fierce loyalty and avoidance.
(c) Curiosity and indifference.
(d) Indifference and protest.

4. Who helps Walker throughout his oral examination?
(a) Sloane.
(b) Finch.
(c) Masters.
(d) Lomax.

5. What does Walker's committee decide about his fate after his oral examination?
(a) To throw out the case.
(b) To dismiss Charles Walker.
(c) To wait a few days to make a decision.
(d) To decide right away.

6. Who tells Stoner that he should be the one insulted by Charles Walker's presentation in Chapter IX?
(a) Archer.
(b) Hollis.
(c) Katherine.
(d) David.

7. What word does the person helping Walker with his oral examination use when interrupting?
(a) Reword.
(b) Talking point.
(c) Clarification.
(d) Rephrase.

8. How many seminars are students required to take to finish a doctorate at Stoner's university?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

9. What does Stoner's student who audits his seminar present her final presentation on in Chapter IX?
(a) The Sonnet.
(b) Petrarch.
(c) Donatus on Shakespeare.
(d) Renaissance Latin literature.

10. How does Stoner begin looking at the value of his life in Chapter XI?
(a) Happily.
(b) In an abstract way.
(c) Bleekly.
(d) Darkly.

11. Who begins questioning Walker during his oral examination that dashes Stoner's hopes for him?
(a) Frye.
(b) Stoner.
(c) Holland.
(d) Lomax.

12. Who is described as a cripple in the book?
(a) Charles Walker.
(b) Grace Stoner.
(c) Katherine Driscoll.
(d) Hollis Lomax.

13. How does Lomax say that Stoner has treated Walker after he refuses to pass him?
(a) Logical.
(b) Insane.
(c) Prejudicial and unfair.
(d) Fair.

14. Who is described as being only a little annoyed by Katherine and Stoner's relationship?
(a) Lomax.
(b) Edith.
(c) Grace.
(d) Katherine's husband.

15. What year does Stoner note the Nazis engaging in the Spanish Civil War in the book?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1939.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Walker react to Stoner when he is threatened to be failed in his seminar?

2. How does Lomax react when Stoner refuses to pass Walker?

3. What must Stoner serve on in regards to Charles Walker's oral examination?

4. How does Stoner find Katherine when he goes to visit her after hearing she was sick?

5. What does Lomax claim was the reason that Stoner was prejudiced against Walker?

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