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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Considering literature on the basis of time periods is the act of the ________________.
(a) Uneducated.
(b) Pseudo-scholar.
(c) Scholar.
(d) Expert.

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

3. What does Forster believe a good novel is "sogged with"?
(a) Humanity.
(b) Action.
(c) Story.
(d) Plot.

4. To be a true critic of literature, one must do what?
(a) Write.
(b) Read.
(c) Study.
(d) Listen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first hypothetical person to whom Forster poses the question, "What does a novel do?"

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

3. Which characters in The Antiquary does Forster say Scott introduced artlessly?

4. Forster says that permanency is one of the illusions attached to what?

5. Birth and death are the what of the five facts of human life?

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