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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How many years separate the writing of Henry James and Samuel Richardson?
(a) 150.
(b) 75.
(c) 160.
(d) 200.

4. What is the highest common factor to all novels?
(a) The theme.
(b) The character.
(c) The plot.
(d) The story.

5. William George Clark is best known for being what?
(a) Shakespearean Scholar.
(b) Minister.
(c) Novelist.
(d) Humorist.

6. The purpose of food in fiction is mostly a ____________ one.
(a) Substance.
(b) Sustenance.
(c) Social.
(d) Subtley.

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

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

9. What does Forster use as an example of something all humans have that rarely gets mentioned in novels?
(a) Brains.
(b) Toes.
(c) Glands.
(d) Hearts.

10. Through characters, novels give the reader the illusion of _________________.
(a) Predictability.
(b) Peace.
(c) Perspicacity.
(d) Perspective.

11. In The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, the character is _____________.
(a) Everything.
(b) Arbitrary.
(c) Secondary.
(d) Existential.

12. A novel that does not include an aspect of time is _____________.
(a) Poignant.
(b) Valueless.
(c) Valuable.
(d) Pointless.

13. Who does Forster say saved his life by telling good stories?
(a) Bronte.
(b) Stein.
(c) Austen.
(d) Scheherade.

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

15. Characters _______ daily life, not coincide with it.
(a) Propel.
(b) Parallel.
(c) Paint.
(d) Process.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose method with character does Forster believe has been misunderstood?

3. Birth and death are the what of the five facts of human life?

4. Which novel does Forster say has a sense of space?

5. Forster refers to characters as ________ created by the novelist.

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