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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the author of The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders?
(a) George Meredith.
(b) Daniel Defoe.
(c) Anothony Trollope.
(d) Charles Dickens.

3. Forster gives his series of lectures on the Aspects of the Novel at Trinity College at _______________.
(a) Cambridge University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) Oxford University.

4. Forster discusses the death of the character Mrs.Proudie in a novel by whom?
(a) Trollope.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Dickens.
(d) Austen.

5. What is the setting of Zuleika Dobson?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Trinity.
(d) Buckingham.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Scott accomplish in the first sentence of The Antiquary?

2. Who is the main character in the George Eliot novel that Forster uses to illustrate prophecy?

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

4. Plot represents the _______ in literary work.

5. Forster contends that Henry James has two kinds of main characters, the observer and the ________.

(see the answer key)

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