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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which author has numerous flat characters who can express themselves in a single sentence?
(a) Proust.
(b) Austen.
(c) Tolstoy.
(d) Dickens.

2. What shape is the pattern of The Ambassadors?
(a) Circle.
(b) Triangle.
(c) Hourglass.
(d) Chain.

3. In which novel does Forster say that the author bounces the reader around characters?
(a) War and Peace.
(b) Emma.
(c) Mansfield Park.
(d) Bleak House.

4. Forster says that neither ________ nor anticipation is interested in Father Time.
(a) Love.
(b) Memory.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Loss.

5. The critic Norman Douglas writes an open letter to which author?
(a) Lawrence Sterne.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) D.H. Lawrence.
(d) Charles Dickens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Forster call characters like Miss Grizzle in The Antiquary?

2. What does Forster use as an example of something all humans have that rarely gets mentioned in novels?

3. In comparing music and literature, Forster says a novelist must try to achieve what?

4. What is the highest common factor to all novels?

5. What does Forster believe a good novel is "sogged with"?

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