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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 role does Stoner consistently find himself happiest in?
(a) Student.
(b) Worker.
(c) Slacker.
(d) Teacher.

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

3. What is the name of the book's author?
(a) John Williams.
(b) Dan Brown.
(c) C.S. Lewis.
(d) Charles Dickens.

4. What is the name of the college the protagonist attended?
(a) University of Missouri.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Duke.
(d) University of Mississippi.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Sloane die in the book?

3. Where do Edith and Stoner get married?

4. What does Stoner believe Edith comes home to do at the end of Chapter VII?

5. What is the name of the child Edith has?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Sloane's funeral described?

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

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

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

5. Why does Edith's father commit suicide?

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

7. How has Edith changed when she returns home from her father's funeral?

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

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

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

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