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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In comparing music and literature, Forster says a novelist must try to achieve what?
(a) Chaos.
(b) Symmetry.
(c) Song.
(d) Expansion.

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

3. What is the name of the last ship in Moby Dick that Forster thinks is aptly named?
(a) Wrath.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Mercy.
(d) Delight.

4. Forster says it is wrong to see the __________ in Moby Dick as a symbol.
(a) Whale.
(b) Coffin.
(c) Bird.
(d) Sea.

5. What novel does Forster refer to when discussing the supernatural aspect of fantasy?
(a) Wisdom's Window.
(b) Shane McDadey.
(c) All The Gods.
(d) Tristram Shandy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Forster believes the truest way to look at a novel is by examining the author's what?

2. Who is the author of The Brothers Karamazov?

3. Forster gives his series of lectures on the Aspects of the Novel at Trinity College at _______________.

4. Forster discusses the death of the character Mrs.Proudie in a novel by whom?

5. Boon is a parody of whose writing style?

(see the answer key)

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