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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Forster contends that while The Antiquary has suspense, it lacks what?
(a) Marketability.
(b) Passion.
(c) Story.
(d) Theme.

2. Forster says novelists find death to be ____________.
(a) Coincindental.
(b) Congenial.
(c) Controversial.
(d) Confusing.

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

4. What does Forster believe a good novel is "sogged with"?
(a) Humanity.
(b) Plot.
(c) Action.
(d) Story.

5. Fictional characters come into the world more like what than human beings?
(a) Antics.
(b) Parcels.
(c) Animals.
(d) Particles.

Short Answer Questions

1. The story appeals to what is ___________ in people.

2. The historian ______________, while the novelist creates.

3. As Forster begins the second section on People, he says that he turns from transplantation of characters to what?

4. Who is the Antiquary in Scott's novel?

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

(see the answer key)

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