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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XIII and XIV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Edith stay in bed after having a baby?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 4 months.
(c) 2 months.
(d) Nearly a year.

2. What is Edith's last name in the book?
(a) Bostwick.
(b) Frye.
(c) Finch.
(d) Driscoll.

3. Which of the following ways does Stoner's personality not change in Chapter XIV?
(a) More direct with colleagues.
(b) Becomes nicer.
(c) Becomes ruder.
(d) Becomes sharper.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lomax respond to Stoner's threats of teaching his classes wrong in Chapter XIV?

2. What does news of never penetrate Stoner as it does other students when he is in college?

3. What does Stoner refuse to let anyone do during his questioning of Walker in his oral examination?

4. Who argues that war had a tendency to destroy the civilization of learning?

5. What year does Stoner note the Nazis engaging in the Spanish Civil War in the book?

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