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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Forster's third set of excerpts in the Introduction are from Virgina Woolf and _______________.
(a) Samuel Richardson.
(b) Henry James.
(c) Sir Walter Scott.
(d) Laurence Sterne.

2. To be a true critic of literature, one must do what?
(a) Listen.
(b) Write.
(c) Study.
(d) Read.

3. As Forster begins the second section on People, he says that he turns from transplantation of characters to what?
(a) Assimilation.
(b) Assertion.
(c) Assistance.
(d) Acclimation.

4. Novelists unintentionally make their characters overly sensitive to what?
(a) Love.
(b) Food.
(c) Birth.
(d) Death.

5. How many hours of the day does Forster suppose should be devoted to love?
(a) Two.
(b) Twenty-four.
(c) Five.
(d) Eight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What novel does Forster refer to as his eternal summer?

2. Characters _______ daily life, not coincide with it.

3. Who is the first hypothetical person to whom Forster poses the question, "What does a novel do?"

4. Forster says novelists find death to be ____________.

5. What does Scott accomplish in the first sentence of The Antiquary?

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