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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Forster considers a novel to be any fictitious prose over __________ words.
(a) 50,000.
(b) 60,000.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 100,000.

2. What is the only literary tool to have an effect on tyrants and savages?
(a) Editing.
(b) Theme.
(c) Suspense.
(d) Drama.

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

4. What novel does Forster refer to as his eternal summer?
(a) The Antiquary.
(b) The Old Wives' Tale.
(c) The Swiss Family Robinson.
(d) War and Peace.

5. Where is Moll sent after she is caught stealing?
(a) Australia.
(b) Cuba.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Florida.

Short Answer Questions

1. Forster contends that while The Antiquary has suspense, it lacks what?

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

3. Forster says that history is dominated by a sense of what?

4. How many years separate the writing of Henry James and Samuel Richardson?

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

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