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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where do Edith and Stoner go on their honeymoon?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Chicago.
(c) St. Louis.
(d) New York.

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

4. Who is killed during combat in the war while Stoner is in college?
(a) Ed Frye.
(b) Charles Walker.
(c) Archer Sloane.
(d) David Masters.

5. Who tries to ease Stoner's anxiety when he is getting married?
(a) Archer Sloane.
(b) Katherine Driscoll.
(c) David Masters.
(d) Gordon Finch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Stoner ride with after Sloane's funeral?

2. What does Stoner become fixated on during the war when he is an undergraduate?

3. Who first tells Stoner that he will be enlisting in the war while they are in college?

4. What is the name of the college the protagonist attended?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Edith's father commit suicide?

2. Why does talk of WWI not penetrate William as it did other students when it begins?

3. How does William tell his parents about continuing to study English in college rather than agriculture?

4. How do Edith's actions towards William change when she decides she wants a baby?

5. How does William come to decide to get a PhD in English?

6. Why does William's father want him to study agriculture in college?

7. How is William and Edith's first time making love described?

8. How does William learn about the new agriculture program at the University of Missouri?

9. How is William and Lomax's conversation described at William's housewarming party?

10. How is William and Edith's first night together as a married couple described?

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