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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter X.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is not present at Walker's oral examination?
(a) Lomax.
(b) Frye.
(c) Holland.
(d) Finch.

2. What is the name of the protagonist of the book?
(a) Hollis Lomax.
(b) Gordon Finch.
(c) Ed Frye.
(d) William Stoner.

3. What does Stoner become fixated on during the war when he is an undergraduate?
(a) His studies.
(b) The military.
(c) Politics.
(d) History.

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

5. Who sees the University as a kind of asylum to protect people too useless to survive the world?
(a) Katherine Driscoll.
(b) Hollis Lomax.
(c) David Masters.
(d) Edith Bostwick.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Edith react when Stoner asks her for sex?

3. What kind of impression does the author note that the protagonist had on the memory of those who knew him?

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

5. What does Walker's committee decide about his fate after his oral examination?

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