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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Forster says that permanency is one of the illusions attached to what?
(a) Love.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Birth.
(d) Death.

2. The historian ______________, while the novelist creates.
(a) Records.
(b) Receives.
(c) Retreats.
(d) Regrets.

3. Works that deal with real people are called what?
(a) Memoirs.
(b) Memories.
(c) Mosaics.
(d) Mysteries.

4. Who tries to abolish time in a novel according to Forster?
(a) Sir Walter Scott.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Marcel Proust.
(d) Gertrude Stein.

5. Birth and death are the what of the five facts of human life?
(a) Strangest.
(b) Strongest.
(c) Silliest.
(d) Surest.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Forster, what is the final test of a novel?

2. How does Forster say he would answer the question, "What does a novel do?"

3. Forster compares the story as the _________ of the novel.

4. Where is Moll sent after she is caught stealing?

5. Forster says that neither ________ nor anticipation is interested in Father Time.

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