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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A plot requires a reader's intelligence and __________.
(a) Memory.
(b) Commitment.
(c) Sensibility.
(d) Emotion.

2. Which author does Forster say his own priggishness prevents him from enjoying?
(a) Conan Doyle.
(b) Jane Austen.
(c) George Meredith.
(d) Oscar Wilde.

3. When comparing plot and drama, Forster visualizes plot as what?
(a) Queen of England.
(b) Higher government official.
(c) Grand Dame.
(d) Lowly paid worker.

4. Who does Forster say has novels with plots that "triumph too completely?"
(a) Andre Gide.
(b) Charles Dickens.
(c) Thomas Hardy.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

5. Plot represents the _______ in literary work.
(a) Art.
(b) Backdrop.
(c) Reason.
(d) Form.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Meredith novel does Forster discuss at length?

2. Which author does Forster refer to when talking about the chaos that prophecy can bring to a novel?

3. According to Forster, Moby Dick should be seen as a what?

4. Who does Forster use as an example when he discusses the difference between real people and fictional people?

5. Who is the one living prophetic novelist that Forster names at the time of his lecture series?

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