Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Forster says it is wrong to see the __________ in Moby Dick as a symbol.
(a) Whale.
(b) Sea.
(c) Bird.
(d) Coffin.
2. What is the setting for Flecker's Magic?
(a) Dublin.
(b) Paris.
(c) London.
(d) Athens.
3. In comparing music and literature, Forster says a novelist must try to achieve what?
(a) Expansion.
(b) Song.
(c) Chaos.
(d) Symmetry.
4. What is the name of the main character in Moby Dick?
(a) Annish.
(b) Ishmael.
(c) Aaron.
(d) Isaac.
5. Flecker's Magic by Norman Matson is about a _________.
(a) Witch.
(b) Sorcerer.
(c) Goddess.
(d) Fairy.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of the main character in Les Fax Monnayeurs?
2. Forster says if rhythm is done badly it hardens into a what?
3. Forster believes that happiness and misery exist in the ___________.
4. The Magic Flute is a parody of the work of whom?
5. Who is the one living prophetic novelist that Forster names at the time of his lecture series?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Forster mean when he describes a novel with a grand chain pattern?
2. What does Forster mean when he describes the novel Thais as being in the shape of an hourglass?
3. How does Forster distinguish between fantasy and prophecy as aspects of the novel?
4. What does Forster describe as being a typical character in a Henry James novel?
5. What does Forster mean when he says that the plot in the novel is its most logical intellectual aspect?
6. What is the difference between an inquisitive novel reader and an intelligent one, according to Forster?
7. What does Forster mean when he says that the works of Melville, Dostoevsky, and D.H. Lawrence have an "intermittent realism"?
8. Why does Forster refer to George Elliot as a preacher?
9. What is Forster's opinion of readers who do not like fantasy?
10. Who does Forster classify as the prophet and the non-prophet in literature?
|
This section contains 683 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
