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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. As Forster begins the second section on People, he says that he turns from transplantation of characters to what?
(a) Assimilation.
(b) Acclimation.
(c) Assistance.
(d) Assertion.

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

5. What does Forster call characters like Miss Grizzle in The Antiquary?
(a) Pointless blobs.
(b) Ragged ends.
(c) Annoying bits.
(d) Clever ploys.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Scott accomplish in the first sentence of The Antiquary?

2. Who is the Antiquary in Scott's novel?

3. Which author does the critic Percy Lubbock feel does not do a good job with point of view?

4. According to Forster, the story is the ___________ of a voice in the novel.

5. Fictional characters come into the world more like what than human beings?

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