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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the young man in the first sentence of The Antiquary?

2. A novel that does not include an aspect of time is _____________.

3. What is the name of the book that William George Clark wrote about his time in Spain?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Forster mean when he says that novels give us the "illusion of perspicacity"?

2. What does Forster believe to be the flaws in Sir Walter Scott's writing?

3. According to Forster, what is the purpose of food in fiction?

4. What does Forster consider to be the strangest of the five basic elements of life?

5. What is the difference between an Austen character and a Dickens character?

6. What does Forster mean by a "sense of space" in War and Peace?

7. How does Forster say that Scheherazade avoids her fate?

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

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

10. What are the guidelines William George Clark requests for the lecture series he began at Trinity College?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of the flaws of Forster's arguments throughout the lecture series? Please use references to literature to substantiate the various points.

Essay Topic 2

What is the difference between the life in time and the life by value? How does Forster illustrate this point through the work of Sir Walter Scott?

Essay Topic 3

How does Forster's point about how varied points of view reflect life parallel his points about characters made in the first People section?

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