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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Stoner believe Edith comes home to do at the end of Chapter VII?
(a) Kill him.
(b) Have more children.
(c) Leave him.
(d) Make war.

2. What does the protagonist's first English teacher expose about him in class?
(a) His awkwardness.
(b) His intelligence.
(c) His insanity.
(d) His ignorance.

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

4. Who argues that war had a tendency to destroy the civilization of learning?
(a) Gordon Finch.
(b) Ed Frye.
(c) Archer Sloane.
(d) Charles Walker.

5. How old is the protagonist when he decides to go to college?
(a) 20.
(b) 22.
(c) 19.
(d) 18.

6. What does Stoner insist Edith do after they are married that seems to open her up?
(a) Have a baby.
(b) Entertain guests.
(c) Build a home.
(d) Cook for neighbors.

7. Who is Stoner surprised to see come to his housewarming party?
(a) Edith Bostwick.
(b) Ed Frye.
(c) Gordon Finch.
(d) Hollis Lomax.

8. What is the name of Stoner's friend who is impressively intelligent and cynical?
(a) Archer Sloane.
(b) Hollis Lomax.
(c) Charles Walker.
(d) David Masters.

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

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

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

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

13. What is the name of the city the protagonist's college is in?
(a) Columbia.
(b) St. Paul.
(c) Charleston.
(d) Pittsburgh.

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

15. Where do Stoner and his two college friends have their weekly meetings?
(a) In a park.
(b) A restaurant.
(c) The library.
(d) A local pub.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Stoner feel after being offered a professor job at the university?

2. Who tries to ease Stoner's anxiety when he is getting married?

3. Who does Stoner ride with after Sloane's funeral?

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

5. What is the name of the family the protagonist stays with when he first goes to college?

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