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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the only reason Stoner won't leave Edith?
(a) He loves her.
(b) Their house.
(c) Grace.
(d) Her money.

2. Who does Stoner learn will be the new head of the English department from Finch?
(a) Frye.
(b) Katherine.
(c) Finch.
(d) Lomax.

3. What does Walker's committee decide about his fate after his oral examination?
(a) To decide right away.
(b) To wait a few days to make a decision.
(c) To dismiss Charles Walker.
(d) To throw out the case.

4. Who is described as a cripple in the book?
(a) Katherine Driscoll.
(b) Hollis Lomax.
(c) Grace Stoner.
(d) Charles Walker.

5. What does Stoner refuse to let anyone do during his questioning of Walker in his oral examination?
(a) Laugh.
(b) Interrupt.
(c) Breathe.
(d) Talk.

6. Where do Stoner and Katherine go for their only trip away together?
(a) Hawaii.
(b) Chicago.
(c) The Ozarks.
(d) New York.

7. What does Katherine do after she resigns from the university?
(a) Kills herself.
(b) Gets married.
(c) Moves to Hawaii.
(d) Leaves town.

8. Who helps Walker throughout his oral examination?
(a) Masters.
(b) Finch.
(c) Lomax.
(d) Sloane.

9. How does Stoner initially react to Walker's oral examination?
(a) Unimpressed.
(b) Blown away.
(c) Impressed.
(d) Intrigued.

10. How does Stoner feel his presence is to Katherine that makes him stop seeing her in Chapter XII?
(a) Burdensome.
(b) Welcomed.
(c) Exciting.
(d) Annoying.

11. What does Stoner say opposed him and Katherine being together and that they were proving wrong?
(a) Ethics.
(b) Sanctity of marriage.
(c) Love rules.
(d) Conventional wisdom.

12. Who aided Lomax in engineering university policies to help Walker?
(a) The president of the university.
(b) The dean.
(c) Gordon Finch.
(d) The chancellor.

13. Whose schedule is made so that Stoner never sees them in Chapter XI?
(a) Finch's.
(b) Grace's.
(c) Katherine's.
(d) Lomax's.

14. How does Lomax react when Stoner refuses to pass Walker?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Slightly upset.
(c) Livid.
(d) Happy.

15. Who cautions Stoner about his affair with Katherine because he could lose his job?
(a) Lomax.
(b) Frye.
(c) Masters.
(d) Finch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Stoner question Walker about to see his basic knowledge during his oral examination?

2. What subject does Stoner begin teaching radically and causing complaints from students?

3. What does Stoner realize with shock after he begins having out-of-body experiences regularly?

4. What does Lomax claim was the reason that Stoner was prejudiced against Walker?

5. How is the weather outside described when Stoner has his first out-of-body experience?

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