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

2. What day of the week does Stoner have a meeting with his two college friends?
(a) Wednesday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Monday.

3. What is the name of the protagonist's first English teacher?
(a) Hollis Lomax.
(b) David Masters.
(c) Archer Sloane.
(d) Gordon Finch.

4. Whose house does Stoner initially meet Edith at?
(a) Her aunt's.
(b) Her sister's.
(c) Her parent's.
(d) Her uncle's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sees the University as a kind of asylum to protect people too useless to survive the world?

2. Who does the author say was only interested in seeking adventure?

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

4. Where is Edith from in the book?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is William's early life on his family farm described for the first time in the book?

3. How does Edith act just after her and William are married?

4. How do William and Edith buy their first house?

5. How is Sloane's funeral described?

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

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

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

9. How is William's first meeting with Edith's parents described?

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

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