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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters II and III.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of the family the protagonist stays with when he first goes to college?
(a) The Wilsons.
(b) The Williams.
(c) The Smiths.
(d) The Footes.

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

5. What is the name of the ship that sinks and causes America to join the war?
(a) The Lusitania.
(b) The Constantinople.
(c) The Columbiana.
(d) The Titanic.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who offers Stoner a job at the university as a professor?

4. What does Stoner become immersed in a passion for as a college student?

5. What does the protagonist's first English teacher expose about him in class?

(see the answer key)

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