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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 many seminars are students required to take to finish a doctorate at Stoner's university?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

2. What is Stoner certain of regarding Katherine when he realizes he has feelings for her?
(a) She is too young.
(b) She is too old.
(c) She isn't interested in him.
(d) She is in love with him.

3. Where do Stoner and Katherine go for their only trip away together?
(a) Chicago.
(b) The Ozarks.
(c) Hawaii.
(d) New York.

4. Who does Edith begin using against Stoner after her father's death?
(a) Ed.
(b) Katherine.
(c) Grace.
(d) David.

5. Who does Lomax threaten to fire after finding out about Stoner's affair?
(a) Both Katherine and Stoner.
(b) No one.
(c) Katherine.
(d) Stoner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What must Stoner serve on in regards to Charles Walker's oral examination?

2. Who is described as being only a little annoyed by Katherine and Stoner's relationship?

3. What does Stoner make with his seminar class when he starts it in Chapter IX?

4. What does Stoner find unfavorable at work after Lomax takes over the English department?

5. What does Stoner's student who audits his seminar present her final presentation on in Chapter IX?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lomax react after William refuses to pass Charles Walker?

2. How is William's first meeting with Charles Walker described?

3. How is William and Katherine's week away in the Ozarks described?

4. How does Finch try and help William not lose his job over his affair with Katherine?

5. How is the set-up of Charles Walker's oral examinations described?

6. What is the nature of William's conversation with Lomax when he tries to mend their relationship over the Charles Walker situation?

7. How is William and Katherine's affair described at the beginning of Chapter XIII?

8. How is William's first out-of-body experience described in the book?

9. How does Edith cause Grace to not be able to spend time with William as a child?

10. How does William find ways to see Katherine after he reviewed her dissertation?

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