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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must Stoner serve on in regards to Charles Walker's oral examination?
(a) His advisor.
(b) His teacher.
(c) His examining committee.
(d) His dean.

2. What year does Stoner note the Nazis engaging in the Spanish Civil War in the book?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1940.

3. Who arrives late for Stoner's seminar in Chapter IX?
(a) Ed Frye.
(b) Katherine Driscoll.
(c) Charles Walker.
(d) Hollis Lomax.

4. What kind of company does Edith become involved in after her father's death?
(a) Florist.
(b) Catering.
(c) Theater.
(d) Law office.

5. What does Stoner's student who audits his seminar present her final presentation on in Chapter IX?
(a) Donatus on Shakespeare.
(b) The Sonnet.
(c) Renaissance Latin literature.
(d) Petrarch.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who aided Lomax in engineering university policies to help Walker?

3. Which of the following ways does Stoner's personality not change in Chapter XIV?

4. What does Stoner say opposed him and Katherine being together and that they were proving wrong?

5. What does Katherine wish for Stoner to do for her when she visits him in Chapter XII?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Edith cause Grace to not be able to spend time with William as a child?

2. How does William react when Finch suggests he pass Walker because he could lose his job?

3. How is William's first meeting with Charles Walker described?

4. How is William able to get his preferred class schedule back from Lomax in Chapter XIV?

5. How does Lomax react after William refuses to pass Charles Walker?

6. How does Charles Walker react when William threatens to fail him from his seminar?

7. Describe William's actions after Katherine drops off her dissertation for him to read.

8. How does Charles Walker arrive to his first class with William?

9. How does Finch try and help William not lose his job over his affair with Katherine?

10. How does William's teaching schedule change after Lomax is appointed chair of the English department?

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