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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does prophecy require from the reader in addition to a suspension of a sense of humor?
(a) Curiosity.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Humility.
(d) Intelligence.

2. Forster says novelists find death to be ____________.
(a) Confusing.
(b) Congenial.
(c) Coincindental.
(d) Controversial.

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

4. Fictional characters come into the world more like what than human beings?
(a) Antics.
(b) Parcels.
(c) Particles.
(d) Animals.

5. Who is the author of Moby Dick?
(a) Bronte.
(b) Dostoevsky.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Melville.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is Moll sent after she is caught stealing?

3. Which Meredith novel does Forster discuss at length?

4. In the People section, Forster says that novelists are appealing to more than our _________ when it comes to the characters of a novel.

5. A plot requires a reader's intelligence and __________.

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