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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year does E.M. Forster present his lecture series, Aspects of the Novel?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1923.

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

3. What year does Charles Dickens publish Great Expectations?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1860.

4. What subject do the excerpts of H.G. Wells and Charles Dickens that Forster compares in the Introduction both describe?
(a) Weddings.
(b) Funerals.
(c) Love.
(d) Christmas.

5. Storytelling is the ____________ aspect of the novel.
(a) Ridiculous.
(b) Extraneous.
(c) Controversial.
(d) Fundamental.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Forster says that Virginia Woolf is a what?

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

5. What is the name of the book that William George Clark wrote about his time in Spain?

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