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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the second hypothetical person to whom Forster poses the question, "What does a novel do?"
(a) A zookeeper.
(b) A writer.
(c) A bus driver.
(d) A golfer.

3. What does Scott accomplish in the first sentence of The Antiquary?
(a) Introducing the characters.
(b) Boring the reader.
(c) Determine the plot.
(d) Setting the scene.

4. What is the name of the young man in the first sentence of The Antiquary?
(a) Laurence.
(b) Jonathon.
(c) Edie.
(d) Lovel.

5. What does Forster call the small gods that he says haunt us today?
(a) Sprites.
(b) Fairies.
(c) Pixies.
(d) Imps.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year does Charles Dickens publish Great Expectations?

2. What subject do the excerpts of H.G. Wells and Charles Dickens that Forster compares in the Introduction both describe?

3. Through characters, novels give the reader the illusion of _________________.

4. Considering literature on the basis of time periods is the act of the ________________.

5. What does Forster say is one of the lowest of human faculties?

(see the answer key)

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