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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Birth and death are the what of the five facts of human life?
(a) Surest.
(b) Strongest.
(c) Strangest.
(d) Silliest.

2. How many years separate the writing of Henry James and Samuel Richardson?
(a) 75.
(b) 150.
(c) 200.
(d) 160.

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

4. Forster says he is not analyzing The Antiquary, but rather _____________ it.
(a) Translating.
(b) Paraphrasing.
(c) Transcribing.
(d) Enlightening.

5. In comparing music and literature, Forster says a novelist must try to achieve what?
(a) Song.
(b) Symmetry.
(c) Chaos.
(d) Expansion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Forster wonders how ____ will combine with the "furniture of common sense" when it comes to prophecy.

2. What is the one short story that Forster discusses in his lectures?

3. What does Forster say it is impossible to study about literature?

4. Where is Moll sent after she is caught stealing?

5. William George Clark is best known for being what?

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