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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the young man in the first sentence of The Antiquary?
(a) Edie.
(b) Lovel.
(c) Jonathon.
(d) Laurence.

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

3. The story appeals to what is ___________ in people.
(a) Progressive.
(b) Melancholy.
(c) Modern.
(d) Primative.

4. What is the occupation of the husband Moll loves deeply in the novel?
(a) Pickpocket.
(b) Barkeeper.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Highwayman.

5. Forster refers to characters as ________ created by the novelist.
(a) Creatures.
(b) Word masses.
(c) Children.
(d) Babies.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Forster use as an example of something all humans have that rarely gets mentioned in novels?

3. What subject do the excerpts of H.G. Wells and Charles Dickens that Forster compares in the Introduction both describe?

4. Works that deal with real people are called what?

5. Forster gives his series of lectures on the Aspects of the Novel at Trinity College at _______________.

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