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

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

3. According to Forster, the story is the ___________ of a voice in the novel.
(a) Backbone.
(b) Border.
(c) Repository.
(d) Requirement.

4. Who is the Antiquary in Scott's novel?
(a) Lovel.
(b) Miss Grizzle.
(c) Jonathon Oldbuck.
(d) Edie Ochiltree.

5. In the introductory section, Forster quotes from whom to describe the duties of the critic?
(a) C.S. Lewis.
(b) Sir Walter Scott.
(c) T. S. Elliot.
(d) William George Clark.

Short Answer Questions

1. Forster believes the truest way to look at a novel is by examining the author's what?

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

3. The historian ______________, while the novelist creates.

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

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

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