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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VIII and IX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the protagonist do during his summers in college?
(a) Studies in a library.
(b) Sells lemonade.
(c) Works on the farm.
(d) Runs a bookstore.

2. What is the name of Stoner's friend who is a mediocre intellect who is in the English department out of convenience?
(a) Charles Walker.
(b) Gordon Finch.
(c) Hollis Lomax.
(d) David Masters.

3. What program does the protagonist originally go to college to study?
(a) Business.
(b) English.
(c) History.
(d) Agriculture.

4. What does Stoner's student who audits his seminar present her final presentation on in Chapter IX?
(a) The Sonnet.
(b) Renaissance Latin literature.
(c) Petrarch.
(d) Donatus on Shakespeare.

5. What kind of impression does the author note that the protagonist had on the memory of those who knew him?
(a) Exceptional.
(b) Unexceptional.
(c) Hateful.
(d) Minimal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the protagonist decide to study after changing from his original subject in college?

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

3. What does Edith begin remodeling Stoner's basement study as after her father's death?

4. Where do Edith and Stoner go on their honeymoon?

5. Where does Edith take Grace for a week for the first time alone with her?

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