View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the highest common factor to all novels?
(a) The theme.
(b) The character.
(c) The plot.
(d) The story.

3. Characters must not spread themselves out too far, but rather should ____________.
(a) Be consistent.
(b) Exercise mutual restraint.
(c) Eat, drink, and be merry.
(d) Think small.

4. What is the silliest way Forster believes there is to classify novels?
(a) Genre.
(b) Author's names.
(c) Time period.
(d) Subject matter.

5. Who does Forster use as an example when he discusses the difference between real people and fictional people?
(a) Princess Diana.
(b) Queen Elizabeth.
(c) Prince Albert.
(d) Queen Victoria.

Short Answer Questions

1. Characters _______ daily life, not coincide with it.

2. Whose characters does Forster describe as being as "flat as a photograph"?

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

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

5. The historian ______________, while the novelist creates.

(see the answer key)

This section contains 172 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample