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

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

3. How long do Edith and Stoner have to try for a child?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 1 month.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 2 weeks.

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

5. What does the protagonist decide to study after changing from his original subject in college?
(a) English.
(b) History.
(c) Biology.
(d) Math.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who dies at the beginning of Chapter VII?

2. Who temporarily fills the director of the English department after Sloane's death?

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

4. Who originally informs the protagonist about a new college program that he decides to partake in?

5. What is the name of the ship that sinks and causes America to join the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Edith's outburst during dinner with Finch and his fiancée in Chapter V.

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

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

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

5. How is Sloane's funeral described?

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

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

8. How is William's first meeting with Edith described in the book?

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

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

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