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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 Edith tell Stoner she will answer his marriage proposal?
(a) Through a friend.
(b) In a letter.
(c) In person.
(d) Over the phone.

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

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

4. What does Edith do just after arriving at her and Stoner's new apartment?
(a) Cooks.
(b) Sulks on the couch.
(c) Cleans it compulsively.
(d) Sleeps.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who reacts in a fit of rage when Stoner says he may enlist in the war?

3. What kind of setting did the protagonist grow up in?

4. What subject does the protagonist teach in college?

5. Who does the protagonist not tell about his decision to change his course of study in college?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do William's parents react when he tells them his plans to obtain a PhD in English?

3. How is William described just before his wedding to Edith?

4. How does Sloane react when William suggests enlisting in WWI?

5. What is the nature of the letter William receives from Edith after he proposes to her?

6. How is Hollis Lomax first described in the book?

7. How is Edith and William's relationship described when they return from their honeymoon?

8. How is William's experience in his first English class described?

9. How is William's marriage proposal to Edith described?

10. How does William react after being offered a teaching job at the University of Missouri?

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