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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the child Edith has?
(a) Grace.
(b) Katherine.
(c) Mary.
(d) Jane.

2. How does Sloane die in the book?
(a) He is shot.
(b) A heart attack.
(c) In a car wreck.
(d) Kills himself.

3. What is the name of the new assistant professor hired after Sloane's death?
(a) Hollis Lomax.
(b) Edith Bostwick.
(c) David Masters.
(d) Katherine Driscoll.

4. What is the name of the book's author?
(a) C.S. Lewis.
(b) Dan Brown.
(c) Charles Dickens.
(d) John Williams.

5. How does Edith lie in bed waiting for Stoner for hours in Chapter V?
(a) Naked.
(b) Heavily clothes.
(c) Sedated.
(d) Clenched in a ball.

6. How does the Great Depression initially impact Columbus?
(a) It is unaffected.
(b) Slightly sets them back.
(c) Very badly.
(d) It is devastated.

7. Where did Edith cancel plans for in order to marry Stoner?
(a) South America.
(b) China.
(c) Africa.
(d) Europe.

8. Who originally informs the protagonist about a new college program that he decides to partake in?
(a) His sister.
(b) His father.
(c) His brother.
(d) His mother.

9. Who does Stoner ride with after Sloane's funeral?
(a) David Masters.
(b) Ed Frye.
(c) Gordon Finch.
(d) Hollis Lomax.

10. What does the protagonist's first English teacher expose about him in class?
(a) His ignorance.
(b) His intelligence.
(c) His insanity.
(d) His awkwardness.

11. Who does Hollis Lomax remind Stoner of?
(a) Gordon Finch.
(b) His father.
(c) David Masters.
(d) Ed Frye.

12. Who argues that war had a tendency to destroy the civilization of learning?
(a) Gordon Finch.
(b) Archer Sloane.
(c) Ed Frye.
(d) Charles Walker.

13. What does Stoner become immersed in a passion for as a college student?
(a) Girls.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) History.
(d) Partying.

14. What does Stoner say he has no feelings of in regards to the war?
(a) Acceptance.
(b) Patriotism.
(c) Pride.
(d) Politics.

15. Who temporarily fills the director of the English department after Sloane's death?
(a) Gordon Finch.
(b) Ed Frye.
(c) William Stoner.
(d) Hollis Lomax.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who offers Stoner a job at the university as a professor?

2. What colleague of William's is described as having a bitter and ironic sense of humor?

3. What state is the protagonist from?

4. What can the protagonist's parents not do about his decision to get a PhD?

5. What does Stoner believe Edith comes home to do at the end of Chapter VII?

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