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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VIII and IX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of setting did the protagonist grow up in?
(a) A farm.
(b) In a hotel.
(c) In a neighborhood.
(d) In the city.

2. What role does Stoner consistently find himself happiest in?
(a) Slacker.
(b) Student.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Worker.

3. How does Edith react when Stoner asks her for sex?
(a) She is excited.
(b) She tenses up.
(c) She is repulsed at the suggestion.
(d) She is open to it.

4. Who does Stoner find as an outlet for love and affection in Chapter V?
(a) Barbara.
(b) Grace.
(c) Katherine.
(d) Jane.

5. What is the name of the graduate student Stoner meets with at the beginning of Chapter IX?
(a) Katherine Driscoll.
(b) Ed Frye.
(c) Charles Walker.
(d) David Masters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the book's author?

2. Who sees the University as a kind of asylum to protect people too useless to survive the world?

3. What does Edith's father give them money for in Chapter VI?

4. What does Stoner say he has no feelings of in regards to the war?

5. Who reacts in a fit of rage when Stoner says he may enlist in the war?

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