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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters IV and V.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where do Edith and Stoner get married?
(a) Edith's aunt's home.
(b) A church.
(c) The University.
(d) A park.

3. Who offers Stoner a job at the university as a professor?
(a) Katherine Driscoll.
(b) Archer Sloane.
(c) Edith Bostwick.
(d) Ed Frye.

4. Who encourages the protagonist to get his PhD?
(a) David Masters.
(b) Archer Sloane.
(c) Hollis Lomax.
(d) Ed Frye.

5. What does news of never penetrate Stoner as it does other students when he is in college?
(a) The war.
(b) Popularity.
(c) Parties.
(d) Politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the protagonist when he decides to go to college?

2. How does Edith act around Stoner when others are present?

3. How are the protagonist's parents' reaction to his desire to get a PhD described?

4. What is the name of the ship that sinks and causes America to join the war?

5. What does the protagonist's first English teacher expose about him in class?

(see the answer key)

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