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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. What can the protagonist's parents not do about his decision to get a PhD?
(a) Believe.
(b) Support.
(c) Accept.
(d) Understand.

2. Who first tells Stoner that he will be enlisting in the war while they are in college?
(a) Gordon Finch.
(b) David Masters.
(c) Hollis Lomax.
(d) Archer Sloane.

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

4. How does Edith lie in bed waiting for Stoner for hours in Chapter V?
(a) Heavily clothes.
(b) Naked.
(c) Clenched in a ball.
(d) Sedated.

5. How are the protagonist's attempts at telling his parents he is getting a PhD described?
(a) Open.
(b) Serious.
(c) Futile.
(d) Detailed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is killed during combat in the war while Stoner is in college?

2. How old is the protagonist when he decides to go to college?

3. How does Stoner feel after being offered a professor job at the university?

4. What is the name of the protagonist of the book?

5. What does Stoner do with his doctoral thesis when it is finished?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does Edith's father commit suicide?

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

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

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

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

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