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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are flat characters called in the seventeenth century?
(a) Paper thin.
(b) Flaties.
(c) Humans.
(d) Humorous.

2. What is the name of the Jane Austen character that Forster uses to illustrate "life like" aspects of characters?
(a) Miss Bates.
(b) Elizabeth Bennet.
(c) Mrs. Bennet.
(d) Mr. Baker.

3. Birth and death are the what of the five facts of human life?
(a) Strangest.
(b) Strongest.
(c) Surest.
(d) Silliest.

4. What does Scott accomplish in the first sentence of The Antiquary?
(a) Determine the plot.
(b) Boring the reader.
(c) Setting the scene.
(d) Introducing the characters.

5. Forster believes the truest way to look at a novel is by examining the author's what?
(a) Structure.
(b) Notes.
(c) Past.
(d) Meaning.

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

7. Forster refers to characters as ________ created by the novelist.
(a) Children.
(b) Creatures.
(c) Babies.
(d) Word masses.

8. The secret lives of people in novels are __________.
(a) Invisible.
(b) Visible.
(c) Imperfect.
(d) Mysterious.

9. According to Forster, the story is the ___________ of a voice in the novel.
(a) Border.
(b) Requirement.
(c) Repository.
(d) Backbone.

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

11. Forster starts his discussion of round characters with the novel ____________.
(a) War and Peace.
(b) Emma.
(c) Wuthering Heights.
(d) Mansfield Park.

12. How many hours of the day does Forster suppose should be devoted to love?
(a) Eight.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Twenty-four.

13. Who is the Antiquary in Scott's novel?
(a) Lovel.
(b) Edie Ochiltree.
(c) Jonathon Oldbuck.
(d) Miss Grizzle.

14. The historian ______________, while the novelist creates.
(a) Regrets.
(b) Records.
(c) Retreats.
(d) Receives.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What novel does Forster refer to as his eternal summer?

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

4. Forster says that Virginia Woolf is a what?

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

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