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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Novelists unintentionally make their characters overly sensitive to what?
(a) Death.
(b) Food.
(c) Love.
(d) Birth.

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

3. What year does Charles Dickens publish Great Expectations?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1905.

4. A novel that does not include an aspect of time is _____________.
(a) Valuable.
(b) Poignant.
(c) Valueless.
(d) Pointless.

5. Forster discusses the motto "_______ develops, Art stands still" in the introductory section.
(a) Artists.
(b) History.
(c) Writers.
(d) Novels.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the People section, Forster says that novelists are appealing to more than our _________ when it comes to the characters of a novel.

3. In a work in which the author classifies novels by weather, how many different headings are there?

4. Who tries to abolish time in a novel according to Forster?

5. What does Forster call characters like Miss Grizzle in The Antiquary?

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