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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the People section, Forster says that novelists are appealing to more than our _________ when it comes to the characters of a novel.
(a) Imagination.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Expectations.

2. Through characters, novels give the reader the illusion of _________________.
(a) Perspicacity.
(b) Peace.
(c) Perspective.
(d) Predictability.

3. Works that deal with real people are called what?
(a) Mosaics.
(b) Memories.
(c) Mysteries.
(d) Memoirs.

4. In The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, the character is _____________.
(a) Secondary.
(b) Everything.
(c) Arbitrary.
(d) Existential.

5. Who tries to abolish time in a novel according to Forster?
(a) Gertrude Stein.
(b) Sir Walter Scott.
(c) Marcel Proust.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the author of The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders?

3. In Forster's opinion, what is the key failing of English fiction?

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

5. The purpose of food in fiction is mostly a ____________ one.

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