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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Edith and Stoner get married?
(a) A park.
(b) Edith's aunt's home.
(c) A church.
(d) The University.

2. What does Edith do after her and Stoner make love the first time?
(a) Vomits.
(b) Falls asleep.
(c) Cries.
(d) Laughs.

3. How does Sloane die in the book?
(a) Kills himself.
(b) He is shot.
(c) In a car wreck.
(d) A heart attack.

4. What does news of never penetrate Stoner as it does other students when he is in college?
(a) The war.
(b) Politics.
(c) Parties.
(d) Popularity.

5. How does Edith act around Stoner when others are present?
(a) Cold.
(b) Aloof.
(c) Warm.
(d) Silly.

6. What kind of work does the protagonist spend most of his childhood dedicated to?
(a) Singing.
(b) Farming.
(c) Writing.
(d) Cooking.

7. Who offers Stoner a job at the university as a professor?
(a) Katherine Driscoll.
(b) Archer Sloane.
(c) Edith Bostwick.
(d) Ed Frye.

8. Where do Edith and Stoner go on their honeymoon?
(a) Chicago.
(b) St. Louis.
(c) Mexico.
(d) New York.

9. What day of the week does Stoner have a meeting with his two college friends?
(a) Sunday.
(b) Monday.
(c) Wednesday.
(d) Friday.

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

11. What does Stoner become immersed in a passion for as a college student?
(a) Partying.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Girls.
(d) History.

12. Who dies at the beginning of Chapter VII?
(a) Stoner's mother.
(b) Ed Frye.
(c) Gordon Finch.
(d) Stoner's father.

13. Where did Edith cancel plans for in order to marry Stoner?
(a) China.
(b) Africa.
(c) South America.
(d) Europe.

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

15. How does Edith tell Stoner she will answer his marriage proposal?
(a) In person.
(b) In a letter.
(c) Through a friend.
(d) Over the phone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the protagonist not tell about his decision to change his course of study in college?

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

3. What is the name of the book's author?

4. What is the name of the ship that sinks and causes America to join the war?

5. What does Edith do just after her and Stoner are married?

(see the answer keys)

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