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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What state is the protagonist from?
(a) Missouri.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Connecticut.
(d) Massachusetts.

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

3. What does Stoner begin remodeling in his new home?
(a) His basement study.
(b) His bathroom.
(c) The kitchen.
(d) The backyard.

4. Who sees the University as a kind of asylum to protect people too useless to survive the world?
(a) Katherine Driscoll.
(b) Hollis Lomax.
(c) Edith Bostwick.
(d) David Masters.

5. What does Stoner become fixated on during the war when he is an undergraduate?
(a) Politics.
(b) The military.
(c) History.
(d) His studies.

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

7. How does Edith act around Stoner when others are present?
(a) Warm.
(b) Cold.
(c) Silly.
(d) Aloof.

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

9. What does the protagonist do during his summers in college?
(a) Runs a bookstore.
(b) Works on the farm.
(c) Studies in a library.
(d) Sells lemonade.

10. What does Edith inform Stoner she wants that surprises him in Chapter V?
(a) A divorce.
(b) A baby.
(c) A job.
(d) A new home.

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

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

13. What kind of impression does the author note that the protagonist had on the memory of those who knew him?
(a) Exceptional.
(b) Unexceptional.
(c) Minimal.
(d) Hateful.

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

15. What is the name of the city the protagonist's college is in?
(a) St. Paul.
(b) Charleston.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Pittsburgh.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Stoner insist Edith do after they are married that seems to open her up?

2. Where do Edith and Stoner get married?

3. What is the name of Stoner's friend who is impressively intelligent and cynical?

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

5. What does the protagonist decide to study after changing from his original subject in college?

(see the answer keys)

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