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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The test of a round character is whether it is capable of _________ the reader.
(a) Fooling.
(b) Comforting.
(c) Surprising.
(d) Engaging.

2. Which poet does Forster say has made eating somewhat sensuous in his poems?
(a) Milton.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Meredith.
(d) Browning.

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

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

5. According to Forster, what is the final test of a novel?
(a) Financial gains of the author.
(b) Critical acclaim.
(c) Time it is published.
(d) Our affection for it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Forster say he would answer the question, "What does a novel do?"

2. Who does Forster say saved his life by telling good stories?

3. Forster discusses the motto "_______ develops, Art stands still" in the introductory section.

4. Forster discusses the death of the character Mrs.Proudie in a novel by whom?

5. What is the silliest way Forster believes there is to classify novels?

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