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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which author does Forster say is a genius with characters who are caricatures?
(a) Dickens.
(b) Trollope.
(c) Austen.
(d) Sterne.

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

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

4. What is the name of the French critic Forster quotes in his discussion of People?
(a) Alain.
(b) Jacque.
(c) Alaque.
(d) Jean Claude.

5. Forster says he is not analyzing The Antiquary, but rather _____________ it.
(a) Enlightening.
(b) Translating.
(c) Paraphrasing.
(d) Transcribing.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Forster considers what to be the enemy when studying literature?

4. Forster believes daily life is made up of time and ___________.

5. To be a true critic of literature, one must do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the tone that Forster notes both in the writing of Laurence Sterne and Virginia Woolf?

2. What does Forster say is the difference between a novel and a memoir?

3. What is striking about the funerals described in the excerpts by H.G. Wells and Charles Dickens?

4. What does Forster demonstrate with the first sentence of The Antiquary by Sir Walter Scott?

5. As defined by Forster, when is a character in a novel real?

6. What image does Forster ask his audience to think of so as not to consider literature in the "stream of time"?

7. What are the two sides of a human being as described by the French critic Alain?

8. Why does Forster believe an Austen novel is more complicated than a Defoe novel?

9. Why does Forster illustrate through the novel Moll Flanders?

10. Why, in Forster's opinion, is Sir Walter Scott a popular novelist?

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