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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which one of the following is NOT an author that Forster considers to use prophecy well?
(a) Joyce.
(b) Dostoevsky.
(c) Bronte.
(d) Melville.

2. Forster surmises that the character Moll was born out the author's experience in _____________.
(a) College.
(b) Politics.
(c) War.
(d) Prison.

3. Forster says that history is dominated by a sense of what?
(a) Fatality.
(b) Futility.
(c) Frustration.
(d) Fury.

4. In The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, the character is _____________.
(a) Everything.
(b) Arbitrary.
(c) Existential.
(d) Secondary.

5. Forster says it is wrong to see the __________ in Moby Dick as a symbol.
(a) Coffin.
(b) Sea.
(c) Whale.
(d) Bird.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of Les Faux Monnayeurs?

2. Who does Forster say has novels with plots that "triumph too completely?"

3. Which author does Forster refer to as a preacher, not a prophet?

4. Forster says that Meredith was the greatest _____ that English fiction ever produced.

5. The secret lives of people in novels are __________.

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